"It’s littering plain and simple." Resident shares striking before-and-after cleanup video following cleanup: 'People fail to ...

The National Park Service, which operates the Fort Funston and Ocean Beach areas, told the Chronicle it does not know where the litter is coming from and said large amounts of trash are not a ...

Roughly eight million tons of plastic enters the ocean every year. That’s according to a 2015 report, which also identified where the bulk of this trash originates. At the top of the list ...

Some 8 million tons of plastic trash leak into the ocean annually, and it's getting worse every year. Americans are said to use 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour. Nothing is an emergency ...

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 ...

Currently, trash boats patrol harbors and marinas and ... Two Australian surfers found an innovative way to clean up the ocean: ocean garbage cans. Aptly named Seabin, these garbage cans float ...

Litter dropped on the street doesn’t stay there. Rainwater and wind carries plastic waste into streams and rivers, and through drains. Drains lead to the ocean! Careless and improper waste disposal is ...

President Donald Trump signed legislation Thursday committing the United States to expand efforts to clean up nearly 8 million metric tons of litter polluting the world’s oceans. WASHINGTON (CN) – ...

But how does our plastic waste end up littering the ocean? Even if you live hundreds of miles away from the sea, the plastic you use can still make its way into the ocean. As much as 80% of the ...

The newly-published EU Coastline Macro Litter Trend report found that the amount of marine macro litter (items bigger than ...