The Allens’ new study offers early evidence that marine plastic could be making its way out of the ocean and into the atmosphere, and eventually traveling as far as the Pyrenees, but there are ...

A report assessing state policies on plastics comes just weeks before negotiators meet to attempt to finalize a global treaty ...

Plastic is the most common type of debris floating in the world’s oceans. Waves and sunlight break much of it down into smaller particles called microplastics – fragments less than 5 ...

From there, the researchers looked at waste management practices to find how much of that plastic was available to enter the ocean: they ended up with a range of 4.8 to 12.7 million metric tons.

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Efforts to clean plastic from the world's oceans could use some help from tech and citizens. ... See full bio. Alison DeNisco Rayome. April 23, 2020 4:00 a.m. PT. 6 min read.

So much plastic is ending up in the ocean that in just a few years, it's estimated that we might end up with a pound of plastic for every three pounds of fish in the sea. Here are 10 ways you can ...

Seafarers have known for decades that the oceans are trash dumps, the ultimate sinkholes for all global garbage. So far, 136 species of marine animals have been found entangled in debris.

Others say the ocean isn’t that full of plastic, and there are more animals above ground, so isn’t it better to place plastic where humans aren’t?

An estimated 8 million tons of plastic enter the ocean every year, which is akin to dumping a garbage truck full of plastic into the sea every minute.

It was the summer of 2017 when he and fellow surfer Andrew Cooper first arrived to the beaches of Bali, Indonesia expecting to find paradise and instead found an ocean full of plastic.

An estimated 33 billion pounds of plastic waste enter the oceans each year, roughly equivalent to two garbage trucks-full dumped in every minute, according to Oceana. It takes centuries to break down.