In a mission to clean up trash floating in the ocean, environmentalists pulled 40 tons of abandoned fishing nets this month from an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Mariners on a ...

Kyle de Bouter holds up a pair of Patagonia board shorts made of recycled fishing nets, smiling as workers nearby slice old nylon nets to stack into seven-foot square, one-ton bales. “This is 100% ...

On paper, the sea is increasingly protected. Governments have designated vast marine protected areas (MPAs) and pledged to ...

Your high-performance outerwear might be made from old fishing nets. The ocean is brimming with trash. This much we know already. Each year, an estimated 5 to 12 million metric tons of plastic enter ...

In the short span of just over a decade, Bureo, a small company based in Ventura, CA, has worked with local fishermen and coastal communities in Chile to remove nearly 15 million pounds of abandoned ...

Studies have shown that lighted nets can reduce bycatch of sea turtles and sharks, but the idea has faced many hurdles to adoption. The batteries are short-lived, expensive to replace and raise ...

Upcycling, or the concept of reimagining waste products to create something new, is one more important piece of the all-important recycling picture. And Ulysse Nardin has jumped right in, serving its ...

New technologies, expanded partnerships and policy breakthroughs move the organization closer to its 2030 goal of embedding ...