Due to ocean currents gyrating swirls of garbage like fishing nets, plastic water bottles, and other items that wash out of landfills, a floating garbage patch exists throughout the world’s gyres.

Or how discarded bottle caps, from the hundreds of billions ... Among the five trillion bits of plastic floating around the ocean are weird curlicues like these—shavings from various fabrication ...

He said: "Plastic water bottles are a single use item that get ... are more than 171 trillion pieces of plastic estimated to be floating in the world's oceans. Mr Lord said he believed a "fair ...

Most involve returning bottles to an automated collection ... is thought to contain 79,000 tonnes of floating waste - that is up to 16 times more plastic and microplastic particles than previously ...

Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic ...