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Pacific Whale Foundation removes more than 12,000 pounds of marine debris in 2025
The Pacific Whale Foundation, the designated Marine Debris Rapid Response partner for Maui Nui, is reporting more progress in its ongoing effort to remove harmful debris from local waters.
HPU looks to convert thousands of pounds of marine debris into sustainable products
Just over a year ago, Hawai‘i Pacific University’s Center for Marine Debris Research launched the first and only marine debris Plastic Recycling Research Facility in the state.
Study: Marine debris cleanup efforts benefit marine life at Papahānaumokuākea, reduce seal entanglements
Nearly 90 Hawaiian monk seals were entangled in ghost nets between 2006 and 2014 in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Team removes 63 tons of marine debris from Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument
A team of freedivers from the Honolulu-based nonprofit organization Papahānaumokuākea Marine Debris Project returned on Saturday from a 28 day cleanup expedition to the remote Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
86,100 pounds of marine debris removed from Papahānaumokuākea
A team from the Papahānaumokuākea Marine Debris Project, a Hawaiʻi-based nonprofit organization, returned to Honolulu on Wednesday, with 86,100 pounds of marine debris removed from shallow coral reefs and shorelines of the islands and atolls within Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.
53 tons of marine debris removed from Papahānaumokuākea
A team from the Papahānaumokuākea Marine Debris Project, a Hawaiʻi-based nonprofit organization, returned to Honolulu recently aboard the 185-ft ship M/V Imua with another 53 tons (105,655 pounds) of marine debris removed from reefs and beaches of the islands and atolls within the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
