He started building and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution. Eventually he began to gather the detritus to use as his art materials, cleaning a ...

Without fanfare, The Ocean Cleanup recently completed its 100th trawl of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, removing almost one million pounds of plastic refuse from the area since launching its ...

There to cover Indonesian surfer Dede Suryana (above) in 2012, Noyle found himself literally swimming in a sea of garbage. “It was overwhelming,” he recalls. “I really thought we were going ...

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Trash from all over the world collects in the ... National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists have released buoys into the sea to track ocean current. In this visualization, they ...

Every instrument they play is made by Oomote himself from trash that washed up on the beach. Surrounded by sea in every direction, both domestic and foreign trash regularly washes up on the ...

Manicurist Arimoto Naomi makes colorful nail tips. But behind the beautiful patterns is plastic trash from nearby beaches. Fashion-inspired eco-consciousness is her goal. A former care worker ...

Which Countries Create the Most Ocean Trash? A new study has found out which countries are the largest contributors of plastic waste entering oceans. WSJ's Robert Lee Hotz reports.

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

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It happened on Edmonton and Iberian drives at around 6:15 a.m. "I just woke up and it was a snow, a sea of trash," said Devin Flores, who lives near the street turned dump. "It was like snow almost." ...