Welcome to episode two of NPR Short Wave's summer series, Sea Camp! Today, we linger at the surface and revisit an episode about an ocean conundrum: Trash from humans is constantly spilling into the ...
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Rubbish city by the sea

KNOWN for its fresh seafood and stilt houses, Kampung Sim-Sim in Sandakan should be a postcard-perfect coastal village. Instead, plastic waste clogs its waters, threatening marine life and livelihoods ...
Down at the bottom of the ocean, it's not just thermal vents and whale bones. There's a vast accumulation of bottles, plastic bags, and other human-generated rubbish – perhaps the world's largest ...
Shoes, toilet seats, watering cans, bowling balls and boxes tumble to the ship's deck in a mountainous riot of colour. There are ropes, buoys, abandoned fishing gear, shredded nets and bottles, bits ...
Let’s be clear from the start, you should never throw trash in the oceans. It is a huge ecological problem, and this type of pollution is responsible for a huge amount of environmental damage and the ...
Salty Clean, a local business, cleans trash bins and disposes of the gray water at a legal dump site, keeping the ocean clean.
A Newhaven resident has voiced his concerns about overflowing bins and piles of rubbish being blown into the sea near his home. Resident Subhuti Anand, 79, who also grew up in the town, says he is ...
KLANG: Environmental NGO The Ocean Cleanup plans to expand its plastic waste interception effort in the Klang River, warning that current measures are not enough to stop pollution from reaching the ...
VENICE (Reuters) - Five huge patches of rubbish floating in seas around the world will have their own unofficial national pavilion on the sidelines of the world's largest non-commercial art fair in ...