It’s the middle of oceanic nowhere. No luxury cruise boats. No fishing vessels. Not even the occasional cargo ship. Other than the intermittent flying fish skimming over and then plopping back into ...

Capt. Charles Moore didn’t think much about plastic or where it ended up until he was sailing back from a trans-Pacific boat race in 1997. Taking a shortcut through the North Pacific Gyre, a vast ...

On film, many a desert-island castaway has put a message in a bottle and cast it out to sea, hoping it would someday reach land. Sorry, all you modern-day Robinson ...

Global waste has always had particularly devastating effects on developing countries, with island nations such as the Philippines and Indonesia bearing the brunt of waste produced by larger nations ...

The plastic vortex of the Northern Pacific is where much of the non-biodegradable rubbish from everyday life ends up. The giant floating rubbish patch is a large accumulation of debris swirling within ...

Earlier this month, two ships sailed from California to study a large patch of the Pacific Ocean, known as the “plastic vortex,” where maritime currents are causing plastic litter to congregate.

HANGA ROA, Easter Island (Reuters) - Easter Island, the tiny remote speck of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is stuck in an oceanic vortex of plastic. According to municipal data from Rapa ...

Marine debris washed on the the Hawaiian island of Ko'olawe (Photo courtesy NOAA) NEW YORK, New York, February 9, 2014 (ENS) – People who love the oceans and people who love fashion have joined forces ...

According to Xinhua News Agency, within the maritime territories of the Pacific Ocean that spans from California to Hawaii, there is a vortex below the calm surface of the ocean which is formed by the ...

Salina, Kansas-based bulk material handling equipment and components maker Vortex Global says it has been recognized for the third time in six years by Alton, Illinois-based Cope Plastics for its role ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Old toothbrushes, beach toys and used condoms are part of a vast vortex of plastic trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, threatening sea creatures that get tangled in it, ...

Project Kaisei and Covanta Energy hope to process nonrecyclable plastic waste from the country-sized garbage patch in the Pacific and convert it into diesel. There is nothing new or good about the ...