Well, the real monsters facing the ocean are climate change – and plastic,” Branson lamented following the discovery. “Sadly, we saw plastic bottles at the bottom of the hole, which is a rea ...

Ever wonder what those small numbers on the bottom of your plastic bottles and takeout containers mean? They're called Resin Identification Codes. Follow BI Video: On Twitter More from Science ...

Plastic has become a vital part of our lives of convenience. Yet the coffee cup lids, water bottles and bags we use once and throw away do end up somewhere -- in landfills, but also in the ocean.

How does plastic get into the ocean? The bottom line is us. Whether we mean to litter or not, there's always a chance the plastic we throw away could make it into the sea, and from there who knows?

Experts predict that in 30 years, there will be more plastic in our oceans than fish ... Adidas uses plastic bottles that contain polyethylene terephthalate, or PET. And if it's something Adidas ...

This story is part of Planet or Plastic ... off a ship in the Atlantic Ocean, for example, washed up on beaches from North Africa to Norway. Or how discarded bottle caps, from the hundreds ...

PHOTOGRAPH BY BRIAN LEHMANN On Okinawa, Japan, a hermit crab resorts to a plastic bottle cap to protect its soft abdomen. Beachgoers collect the shells the crabs normally use, and they leave trash ...

In fact, it was actually sent to the bottom of the sea on purpose ... the world’s first Arctic Ocean-aged sparkling wine. Haram Svorte sabered the bottle before a curious crowd of onlookers.

In the form of bottles, tyres, packaging and piping, millions of tonnes of plastic waste are dumped every year in the world's ...

Even though recycled polyester is a useful way to keep plastic bottles out of landfills and the ocean, getting enough PET depends on the choices people make. There are more than enough plastic bottles ...

His final mission will be a dive in the Arctic Ocean that's set for September 2019. The discovery of plastic at the bottom of the Challenger Deep suggests there's far more to learn about the ...