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The new research might seem like good news, but the full picture is complicated: The amount of plastic in the ocean is still increasing by about 4 percent every year, according to the study.

Naïve? Perhaps. But I set out to try. By 2013 I had founded the Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit funded by donations and a range of philanthropic partners with the mission to rid the oceans of plastic.

New research finds an estimated 27 million tons of nanoplastics in the North Atlantic, raising concerns for marine ecosystems and human health.

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Oceans of plastic The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is twice the size of Texas, is the largest accumulation of ocean plastic in the world.

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On a remote Australian island, the birds are so full of plastic they crunch Seabirds have been fishing plastic from the ocean and feeding it to their chicks, researchers say. One bird was found to ...

Others say the ocean isn’t that full of plastic, and there are more animals above ground, so isn’t it better to place plastic where humans aren’t?

It was the summer of 2017 when he and fellow surfer Andrew Cooper first arrived to the beaches of Bali, Indonesia expecting to find paradise and instead found an ocean full of plastic.