Two South African women and their Sunshine Cleaning volunteer group are cleaning up river banks in Blue Downs near Cape Town, to keep plastic out of oceans.
Two young chemical engineering students, Sean Hunt and Gaurab Chakrabatri, made a bio hydrogen peroxide from yeast, launching the Solugen line of cleaners.
Former NFL player Marquette King is being praised for helping heal a wounded community, after his tweet galvanized volunteers to clean up Phoenix.
Billy Adams started a pandemic ritual of picking up several bags of litter along daily walks through Washington, DC.
Coldplay partners with The Ocean Cleanup project to sponsor a river going vessel called The Interceptor to pull out plastic trash.
Rajappan goes out in his boat every day to clean up plastic bottles. Now the Indian PM has praised his work, thanks to Nandu Ks's photo.
In a weekend cleanup, volunteers with Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful dug out 9,200 pounds of trash from the banks of the Tennessee River.
Ocean Voyages Institute made history this week, removing 103 tons of fishing nets and consumer plastics from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Feeling a sense of patriotic duty after the Capitol riots on Wednesday, New Jersey congressman Andy Kim started clearing the debris at 1am.
The BeBot beach cleaning robot is 30x faster than hands, and will help 4Ocean pull their 20 millionth pound of trash out of the ocean.
A scuba dive team has completed an extraordinary clean-up of Lake Tahoe, pulling up more than 12 tons of submerged trash.
Swiss-based Exlterra reported spectacular results after one year of decontamination in the Chernobyl zone using its safe, novel technology.
They volunteered for Iraq and Afghanistan. Now they are volunteering to help people in Oklahoma to dig out from utter devastation. These veterans have answered the call for duty because their drive toward service and helping their country has not ended just because they hung up their uniform.
Who knew kids liked picking up trash so much?
A picturesque river is getting a makeover while 20 of the city's homeless in Reno, Nevada are getting a new chance at jobs and housing.
On December 6, a group of 10th-graders from Hashmonaim and Beit Shemesh arrived in New York to help in the ongoing clean-up and fix-up efforts after Hurricane Sandy.
A former landfill in a Rio de Janeiro slum has been turned into a park thanks to a group of dedicated volunteers. People came here to get rid of old refrigerators, stoves, tires and even their dead dogs, said Mauro Quintanilha, a musician and craftsman who started the initiative to create a green oasis out of the pungent garbage dump.
More than a century ago this estuary was teeming with wildlife. Expansive beds of shellfish and huge shoals of herring and salmon fed all the surrounding communities. After more than a century of pollution, the River Forth is making a comeback.
A new Olympic Park arose in a once derelict and contaminated industrial area of east London turning neglected waterways into wildlife havens. Almost 500 acres of land (200 hectares) have been razed and redeveloped for the 2012 Olympic Games, and 45 of those have been given over to creating new wildlife habitats for kingfishers, bats, otters and snakes -- while much of the rest has been left as parkland.
Armed simply with chainsaws, a corps of military veterans has arrived on the Jersey Shore to help Sandy-stricken residents trapped by a maze of downed trees and debris.
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