Letters to the Editor: Plan to reduce trash flowing into the ocean ahead of Olympics is misguided

'Angelenos deserve better than an Olympics that leaves behind a pile of plastic for cleanup,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

Art exhibit uses trash from beaches to teach about plastic pollution in the ocean

The Washed Ashore Project created a new art exhibit traveling the country from all the junk people leave behind on beaches, ...

The man who wants to stop trash from flowing into the ocean

Boyan Slat has a plan to rid the ocean of plastic pollution, this coming El Niño could be a monster and more big stories ...

Scientists Are Turning Ocean Trash Into Roads – and It’s Actually Working

Hawaii researchers are testing whether plastic waste and abandoned fishing nets can be safely reused in asphalt roads.

San Gabriel River, LA River will get trash interceptors to combat ocean and beach pollution

Could this technology finally be a solution for the plastic problem reaching the ocean, here and around the world?

Scientists stunned: Our ocean trash is creating new ecosystems faster than we can clean them up

In the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, the vast rotating current system between California and Hawaii, floating objects tend ...
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L.A.'s ultra-urban rivers wash tons of trash out to sea. There's a plan to change that before the Olympics

A couple walk on a sandbar in the San Gabriel River near Seal Beach, where a trash interceptor will be installed. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Rivers that wind through Los Angeles County ...
Earth.com

Sea caves are trapping plastic in the dark, and endangered seals may be paying the price

Scientists found severe plastic pollution inside Mediterranean sea caves where endangered monk seals rest and raise pups.
The Royal Gazette

Sea Cadets take to the water and clean up trash for funds

The Bermuda Sea Cadets Corps held its annual sponsored row and trash clean-up, and is inviting the public to help it reach a ...

Garbage truck overturns onto pickup in Manchester, three injured: cops

A speeding garbage truck taking a turn into the Ocean County Landfill on Route 70 in Manchester overturned onto a Ford pickup ...

Garbage Truck Overturns Onto Pickup Truck: Manchester PD

A garbage truck overturned onto a pickup truck in Manchester Township on Thursday, May 21, authorities said.At 11:05 a.m., ...
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19 York private roads to lose curbside trash pickup this fall: Here's the list

York’s shift to automated trash pickup will end curbside service on 19 private roads and may eliminate free bulky‑waste ...