A series of shocking images reveal how pollution plagued America 30 years ago until the EPA was founded and created regulations that helped cities transform into what we see today.
The trash wheel now sports a SpongeBob SquarePants design, as part of a partnership that will fund the clean up of more than 500,000 pounds of trash from Baltimore’s waterways.
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In 1997, Captain Charles Moore first discovered the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” the largest accumulation of plastic waste in the ocean. Since then, scientists have documented how plastic has permanently damaged marine ecosystems and even altered evolution and the problem has only grown larger. But Moore and other researchers aren’t giving up hope that we can still save the oceans.