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 ...

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

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 ...

A unique and thought-provoking art installation made entirely from ocean trash is now on permanent display at The Lillian M.

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 ...

After the pirates celebrated a successful Gasparilla Saturday, volunteers spent time Sunday cleaning up all the beads and ...

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 ...

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

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) – ...

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 ...