Hawaii Pacific University’s Center for Marine Debris Research Bounty Project has removed more than 185,000 pounds of derelict “ghost” fishing gear from the North Pacific.

In a mission to clean up trash floating in the ocean, environmentalists pulled 40 tons of abandoned fishing nets this month from an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Mariners on a ...

In the short span of just over a decade, Bureo, a small company based in Ventura, CA, has worked with local fishermen and coastal communities in Chile to remove nearly 15 million pounds of abandoned ...

Your high-performance outerwear might be made from old fishing nets. The ocean is brimming with trash. This much we know already. Each year, an estimated 5 to 12 million metric tons of plastic enter ...

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