(CNN)-- A salty soup of seawater, microscopic pieces of plastic and marine debris. Those are the ingredients in the North Pacific Gyre, an ocean vortex estimated by Greenpeace to be the size of Texas, ...

It’s been nearly 13 years since researchers first discovered the Pacific Trash Vortex, a country-sized mass of plastic debris in the North Pacific Gyre. Since that time, countless boats have come back ...

There is nothing new or good about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (aka the Pacific Trash Vortex), a country-sized mass of plastic debris in the North Pacific Gyre. But Project Kaisei and Covanta ...

Wanted: a seaworthy barge for picking up garbage from the middle of the Pacific Ocean. That’s what officials from Project Kaisei looked for recently in San Diego. The Sausalito-based group is trying ...

Project Kaisei Links with BIRThe Bureau of International Recycling (BIR), Brussels, has become an official sponsor of Project Kaisei’s effort to assess the impact of and techniques for removing marine ...

Cohn & Wolfe has been named pro-bono communications agency of record for Project Kaisei, a project of Ocean Voyages Institute dedicated to researching and finding solutions to the "Plastic Vortex." ...

Earlier this month, two ships sailed from California to study a large patch of the Pacific Ocean, known as the “plastic vortex,” where maritime currents are causing plastic litter to congregate.

Trade winds transport trash dumped in the ocean and other waterways to a region known as the North Pacific Gyre to form the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The waterborne dump is a Texas-size collection ...

Get ready to meet “Kai,” a real goldfish that is the centerpiece of a social media-focused advertising campaign designed to raise awareness of plastic marine debris. The campaign, on behalf of Project ...