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Ballona Creek carries water – and garbage – from Griffith Park to the ocean. LA County is using new tech to try to keep it clean.

Continuous efforts are being made to remove this marine waste. An organisation named The Ocean Cleanup is engaged in removing this garbage.

More than 75 percent of plastic found in the North Pacific Garbage Patch (NPGP) are discarded fishing equipment from Japan and China, according to a Dutch non-profit. In a Sept. 1 study, The [...]

More than three-quarters of the North Pacific Garbage Patch, found between Hawaii and California, comes from the fishing industry, says The Ocean Cleanup.

The mountain of single-use plastic waste from Covid-19 has seriously set back sustainable development goals for Hong Kong and the world. We need to take account of all the plastic waste when formulating testing, quarantine and mask policies, build effective waste management systems and recycle more.

Key marine species can serve as bioindicators to measure how much plastic exists in different ocean regions.

Ocean cleanup technology can help, but experts say its not enough, and there needs to be more action taken to stop plastics at the source

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch stretches for 610,000 square miles between California and Hawai’i. The gyre hosts around 79,000 metric tons of microplastics, nets, buoys and bottles. And, surprisingly, coastal life. Scientists found coastal animals like anemones, hydroids and shrimp-like amphipods living on plastic collected from the open ocean.

New scientific studies of pregnant Americans show most are exposed to a host of potentially toxic chemicals. Globally, pollution kills 9 million a year.

Americans have long been encouraged to reduce, reuse and recycle. But less than 9% of plastic is recycled in the U.S.