It has been two years since one man took it upon himself to clean a polluted beach – and now, thanks to his efforts, a vulnerable turtle species has returned to the shoreline.
A policeman heartbroken when thieves stole his Service Medal was stunned when kind strangers pulled it from a river and tracked him down.
Charles Jefferson must have felt he hit a hole in one when his dog, a cavapoo named Marlo, emerged from the bushes with his lost golf ball.
The Ocean Cleanup deployed a new system to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch capable of cleaning an area of a football field every five seconds.
4ocean has reached a stellar milestone: 30 million pounds of plastic waste recovered from the oceans, rivers, and coastlines.
The TerraCycle Foundation reached a milestone, having removed over 2 million pounds of plastic waste from rivers, canals, and waterways.
The identity of serial litterers who spent months blighting a neighborhood with half-eaten chocolates was discovered to be greedy squirrels.
When Lilly Platt first heard about the ‘plastic whale' that washed up on a Norway beach, she became determined to clean up ocean pollution – no matter how many miles were in the way.
At just 18 years old, this Dutch teenager claimed he could tackle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – and starting this summer, he is going to do just that.
More than 1,200 Belgian school children cleaned up the city of Ostend's beaches, joined by representatives of the UN—and some blue Smurfs.
Over the course of the last two decades, the "Buddha of Oakland" has completely transformed the Oakland, California neighborhood.
It took the group of divers only two hours to collect all of the trash and fishing line from the ocean floor of the Florida beach shoreline.
For the last three months, this dedicated granddad has devoted his weekends to picking up cigarette butts and turning them into anti-smoking art.
Joseph Beer, 15, has spent lockdown in the town of Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, England, cleaning up road signs and hedges.
This biodegradable cooler is now replacing the pesky polystyrene containers which have been a plague on the environment for too long.
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.
Since January 1, there's been a ban on single-use plastics being used in Mexico City, a capital with a population of over 9 million.
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.
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