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Crustaceans and mollusks foreign to the United States have survived up to six years riding on ocean trash. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

On Sept. 8, 2018, The Ocean Cleanup will launch the first beta test of its plastic-collecting technology, a nearly 2,000-foot (600-meter) floating tube that functions as an artificial coastline. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

On September 8, a massive and controversial plastic-cleanup system will be launched into the Pacific Ocean. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Here’s a look at how a newly created nonprofit is using reclaimed ocean plastic to make 3D-printed upper limbs for those in need. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

The online ocean science community has been vocally skeptical about the Ocean Cleanup, a device that aims to physically remove plastic pollution from the ocean. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

The remaining wilderness areas, mostly in the remote Pacific and at the poles, need urgent protection from fishing and pollution, scientists say. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Ocean cleanup designs giant pac-man system to gobble up world's plastic waste problem. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

The Gulf Stream, which curves along the southern shore of Newfoundland, is saturated with plastics. Fish that feed from the surface waters, where plastics tend to accumulate, are in an ideal position to ingest plastics. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Conservation International manager (oceans and climate change), Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson, told Samoa Observer in an interview that plastic is non-biodegradable and will impact on the island for hundreds of years. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Kawenu school children won first place in the singing competition to promote the ban on plastics in Vanuatu. Click on the link below to read the full article.