The House Votes to Extend a Program to Oversee Debris Clean-Up in Oceans
The House voted Wednesday to extend the program that oversees removal and prevention of plastics in the nation's waterways.
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Trash Islands Are Still Taking Over the Oceans at an Alarming Rate
With more than 90 percent of the world's plastic going unrecycled, garbage patches the size of Mexico are cropping up around the world. Can they ever be cleaned up?
A Better Way to Clean Up Ocean-Polluting Plastics
Hint: Don't go after the Great Pacific garbage patch—which, by the way, isn't really a patch at all.