Every year, more than 8 million tons of plastic enter the ocean - bags, cups, straws, and many other items from the daily ...

Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean surfaces. At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the ...

Flesh-footed shearwaters, large, sooty brown seabirds that nest on islands off the coasts of Australia and New Zealand, eat more plastic as a proportion of their body mass than any other marine ...

Barry Rosenthal started collecting plastic garbage on a New York shoreline ... studio for months—sometimes years—until a critical mass of color emerges. These objects have little in common ...

A rising tide of plastic waste is choking our oceans, threatening fragile ecosystems and killing sea life. While plastic has revolutionised our way of life since it was invented in the 1950s, the ...

but unfortunately our used plastic is getting into the ocean. It can end up causing all sorts of problems for sea life and marine mammals. But how does our plastic waste end up littering the ocean?

Plastic fills our dumps, homes and oceans. Plastic pollution takes a huge toll on wildlife: More than 700 species, including sea turtles, fish and whales, eat plastic or get tangled up in it. Plastic ...

Scientists are seeking to better understand these unique enzymes and the potential of harnessing this biological process to break down the mass ... of plastic have been dumped in the ocean for ...

The Ocean Cleanup started removing plastic from the ocean a decade ago. But most of that plastic comes from rivers, so it started building solar-powered river cleaners to catch garbage before it ...

Bali’s Jimbaran and Kuta Beaches are also being hit by tides upon tides of plastic and ocean debris. Participants and volunteers remove plastic waste and other garbage washed ashore at a beach ...