Ocean Trash News Today

Discarded “ghost fishing gear” pollutes the oceans and kills countless marine animals every year.

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Today, divers in santa monica are joining hundreds of thousands of volunteers around the world hitting the beach to fight against ocean trash. lets go right now to darsha phillips with knbc, joining us from the santa monica pier on a beautiful saturday in southern california. what are you seeing there, the efforts to make that region even more beautiful by cleaning it up, right? >> reporter: absolutely, alex. we are seeing 1,000 to 2,000 volunteers in santa monica helping clean up the beaches, p...

In the medium term, accelerating the use of technology to convert plastic wastes and improve the technology and most importantly cutting single-use plastics. here dr. kyle of the monterey bay aquarium. listen here. >> we think theyre being recycled at 90% of the materials that go into the system are not recycled and end up in landfills or perhaps in the ocean. thats one place that we can start what is an easy fix. an easy fix is to stop using single-use plastics. we dont need these materials. >>...

But bad weather in the southern hemispheres winter is already hampering efforts. they are not looking for the plane. they are looking for debris and after that investigators will have to decide that anything that is found is significant or whether it is just another piece of ocean trash. meanwhile tests are still being carried out at this military lab on 777 wing fragment. malaysia says there is a link. france hasnt announced it yet. malaysia says they have conclusive evidence of the connection....

The island apparently some pieces of aluminum and what could be part of a window, the interior part? >> reporter: thats right, jose. french authorities again say theyre not aware of these pieces of debris. they havent been notified of them and theyre not expecting them here yesterday. perhaps that notification will take place today. and authorities in the indian ocean arent commenting either. however in the last few minutes, we have heard that the officials in a small farming town on that island...

Found. that could yield a lot more ocean trash, but it could also provide the next vital clue in what has already been a 16-month mystery. >> thanks so much. movie goers in tennessee describe running for their lives after an attacker armed with pepper spray, a hatchet and what turned out to be a pellet gun wednesday. >> he walkedthooter. he took out a hatchet and started attacking this family. >> police were on the scene within minutes. they shot and killed the accused attacker after he tried ...

You mentioned found on the shores of western australia. still waiting to hear from investigators whether its from the plane or just more ocean trash that weve had before. >> reporter: more than 1,000 miles from where crews are searching for flight 370, debris from something containing sheet metal with rivets and fiberglass coating washingtoned ashore in australia. authorities are investigating but skeptical its from the plane. >> 777 is a complex system. boeing knows their plane very well. it wi...

Searching in this 17-mile radius area where we expect that amplitudes would be different because of different reflections and currents and so on and so forth. we have talked more about the sal lynnty and the temperature creating in effect sound walls off which to bounce the signals. hopefully, we have a shot because if the amplitude is strong, we should be close to it. >> you know, jim, we are still awaiting the information from the bluefins first full mission after some setbacks. does it seem t...