Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis ... Protection Agency asking the government to regulate plastics as a pollutant under the Clean Water Act and will keep ...

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?

Global Plastic Production Plastic production has reached astronomical levels, making its presence felt in every corner of the ...

large quantities of plastics leak into rivers and oceans, with adverse effects to marine ecosystems and related economic activities. This report is one of the first of its kind to quantify primary ...

Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world's oceans, rivers, and lakes. Plastic pollution is a global problem. Every year 19-23 million tonnes of ...

Alongside shiny new industrial processing equipment-grinders, chutes, sorting tables and heavy metal baskets and racks, there ...

An eco exhibition has left minds 'boggled' in Bristol after an installation of 1,000 fake flamingos was designed to highlight ...

(Photo by ANDER GILLENEA / AFP) (Photo credit should read ANDER GILLENEA/AFP via Getty Images) When people tend to think of plastic pollution and the oceans, they usually think of discarded soda ...

With marine pollution caused by plastic waste becoming a global concern, research is underway in Japan to solve the problem by creating innovative plastic that decomposes in seawater. The town of ...

An invisible cocktail of chemicals leaching from plastics could be threatening the long-term survival of birds in the wild, ...