These items aren’t like the used fishing gear and beer cans ... and added to swirling ocean trash vortexes. Most containers eventually sink to the sea floor and are never retrieved.

These items aren't like the used fishing gear and beer cans ... and added to swirling ocean trash vortexes. Most containers eventually sink to the sea floor and are never retrieved.

These items aren’t like the used fishing gear and beer cans ... and added to swirling ocean trash vortexes. Most containers eventually sink to the sea floor and are never retrieved.

In a pilot study, the National Cargo Bureau, a nonprofit that works with the U.S. Coast Guard to inspect seagoing cargo, ...

These items aren’t like the used fishing gear ... More than 20,000 shipping containers have tumbled overboard in the last decade and a half. Their varied contents have washed onto shorelines, poisoned ...

Shipping containers that are lost at sea can pose a number of different unseen ... releasing billions of plastic nurdles—small pellets used in manufacturing—along with thousands of tons ...

The South Caucasus nation of Georgia has a huge used car market, with many vehicles finding their way over the border.