Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Smart Grapple is capable of lifting individual items of trash weighing up to 250 kilograms (550 pounds). - Andreas Schmitz/TUM ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — ORCA is a small trash-collecting robot that two students from Pride Elementary School in New Tampa are hoping will turn into the next big thing. Best friends Aris Isaac and ...

With millions of tons of plastic covering the seafloor, and more added every year, plastic pollution in the oceans is a major problem. With this amount of waste, we are ruining Earth's oceans and ...

Between 1950 and 2020, 32 million metric tons of plastic accumulated in the ocean, according to one estimate — the weight of over 200,000 blue whales. Without any additional action, that figure is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — ORCA is a small trash-collecting robot that two students from Pride Elementary School in New Tampa are ...