Floating masses of garbage off some of the Caribbean’s pristine beaches offer grim evidence of a vast and growing problem of plastic waste heedlessly dumped in the ocean, local residents, activists ...

Located off the coast of the Ieura Port in Japan’s Teshima Island is Tashima Factory. What was once an ironworks factory — later called “Garbage Island” for a scourge of industrial waste and illegal ...

As always, PopSci brings the awesome. Dutch visionaries want to turn the Pacific Garbage Patch into a self-sufficient, green island paradise that draws its resources from the ocean and the garbage ...