ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS >> Dutch inventor Boyan Slat is widening his effort to clean up floating plastic from the Pacific Ocean by moving into rivers, too, using a new floating device to catch garbage ...

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A new study estimates nearly 270,000 tons of plastic is floating in the world's oceans. That's enough to fill more than 38,500 garbage trucks. The plastic is broken up into more than 5 trillion pieces ...

In 2020, it was estimated that there were 51 trillion pieces of plastic floating in our oceans. In the five years since, that number has only climbed steeply, as approximately 11 tonnes of plastic ...

Plastic has been found in every single part of the ocean, from the surface to the seafloor and from the tropics to the poles. Land-based sources of plastic account for the majority of this pollution, ...