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Hurricane Helene cleanup crews are scrambling in Florida — but time is running out. That makes Milton more dangerous.

Hurricane Milton is bearing down on Florida, and the region is still racing to clean up from Helene…

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Tamil Nadu to deploy innovative 'trash interceptors' to rid rivers of plastic pollution in 14 districts

As part of the ambitious Rs 1,675 crore Tamil Nadu Coastal Restoration Mission, the state environme…

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55 tons of ocean plastic collected from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to be recycled into Kia’s electric vehicles!

Kia has already begun upcycling plastic in many car parts, such as the EV9 model which incorporates…

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Visualizing beloved aquatic animals when we reach for plastic might just help us use less of it and protect our oceans

New research shows that photos of animals above recycling bins appeared to reduce people's behavior…

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Package deal: Businesses and environmental groups pushed for a Colorado tax that will fund recycling of bottles and containers

Colorado has become the third state to enact a law that will tax bottles, food wrappers, and other …

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A half-mile plastic-trapping device in the Pacific caught 64,000 pounds of trash - including a fridge, mannequin, and toilet seats

A new device built by the nonprofit The Ocean Cleanup brought back 64,000 pounds of plastic from th…

Aria Bendix   


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A half-mile installation just took 20,000 pounds of plastic out of the Pacific - proof that ocean garbage can be cleaned

The Ocean Cleanup, the group behind the device, thinks 10 such installations could clean 50% of the…

Aria Bendix   


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Timex turns single-use plastic into a durable watch

Timex , one of the top selling watch global brand leader in watchmaking for over 165 years is thril…

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Boyan Slat, founder of The Ocean Cleanup, to speak at the Business Insider Global Trends Festival 2020

Slat will be on stage at Business Insider's virtual event in October for his talk "The Largest Clea…

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is actually a unique ocean ecosystem teeming with sea creatures that cling to the plastic trash

A coauthor of a new study that found coastal species of sea life were living on plastic in the open…

Kelsey Vlamis   


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US military atomic cleanup crews were sent out in the wake of American nuclear testing, and many paid a heavy price, veterans say

One veteran told Insider that exposure to radioactive material could come from anywhere, like eatin…

Jake Epstein   


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World Oceans Day: Plum Goodness joins hands with WWF India to clean coastlines across four Indian states

Marine debris — any persistent, solid substance in the marine and coastal environment — damages aqu…

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The massive ocean cleanup device invented by a 24-year-old is running into problems in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Slat's 2,000-foot-long device, System 001, recently spent four weeks in the Great Pacific Garbage P…

Peter Kotecki,Peter Kotecki   


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The massive ocean cleanup device invented by a 24-year-old is still leaking plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

By the end of November, Slat's organization, The Ocean Cleanup, released an update saying they had …

Aria Bendix,Peter Kotecki,Pet…   


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A giant ocean clean-up device meant to scoop plastic out of the Pacific has broken, and is being towed back to land

On December 8, Slat said plastic could be escaping from the device because the sea's current was wa…

Bill Bostock,Bill Bostock   


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The massive ocean cleanup device invented by a 24-year-old broke down in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and returned to shore. Here's what went wrong.

In 2013, 18-year-old entrepreneur Boyan Slat set out to tackle this problem by launching The Ocean …

Aria Bendix,Aylin Woodward   


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Dead fish and birds are washing up on the coast of Southern California after more than 125,000 gallons of oil spilled into the Pacific Ocean

The oil spill spanned 13-square-miles into the water, prompting city officials to close the beaches…

Lauren Frias   


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A pollution disaster as the stranded Japanese oil tanker off the pristine coast of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean splits apart

A huge cleanup operation had been underway in an attempt to pump some of the oil out of the tanker …

Sophia Ankel   


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A new version of the massive plastic cleanup device invented by a 24-year-old is returning to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

The first test will involve attaching a sea anchor that decelerates the speed of the system. If tha…

Aria Bendix   


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A California environmental group is suing Coke and Pepsi over claims they're polluting oceans with plastic bottles

"Plastic waste is a worldwide problem that demands thoughtful solutions," William M. Dermody Jr., a…

Jessica Snouwaert