Facts About Plastic Pollution and Microplastics Plastic pollution is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our ...

The Ubiquity of Plastic in Our Lives Plastic has become an inevitable part of modern life. If you look around, almost ...

For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic shopping bags ... across the United States to turn fracked gas into plastic. This means more ...

Join the conversation in our Facebook group. Among the five trillion bits of plastic floating around the ocean are weird curlicues like these—shavings from various fabrication or drilling processes.

WWF/ Greg Armfield Plastic pollution can now be found everywhere on our planet, not just on beaches and floating in the ocean. Plastics have been found in the air, soil and water, in our food and even ...

The Ocean Cleanup project’s goal is to remove half of the plastic pollution by 2027 using floating barriers anchored to the seabed. A similar patch of floating plastic debris is found in the ...

The giant floating pipes will be driven by the wind, waves, and currents. His system is projected to clean 50% of the garbage patch in five years. The Ocean Cleanup has started the assembly ...

This year will be a year with plenty of opportunities to make important progress on several climate-related issues, from plastic pollution to financing the shift to a cleaner global economy.

A considerable amount of micro-plastic is released ... due to shipping and fishing pollution Record levels of micro-plastics have been found trapped inside sea ice floating in the Arctic.

There are 12-21 million tons of tiny plastic fragments floating in the Atlantic Ocean ... Ronnie Woodward, an expert in plastic pollution, from the University of Manchester, told BBC News the ...

Charleston Waterkeeper and others have found almost 30,000 plastic pellets littered on beaches and marshes, while a bill to ...