New research reveals that PET-based glitter microplastics can actively influence biomineralization processes in marine ...

A 2016 report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation claimed that by 2050 there would be 850 tons of plastic in the oceans and ...

Scientists use satellite data to find ocean zones where trash naturally gathers for easier, faster, and cleaner clean-up.

Oceana estimates Coca-Cola will release 1.33B pounds of plastic into oceans by 2030. The company dropped its reuse pledge.

BC's Philip Landrigan, M.D., and the Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health present a sweeping new report showing plastic as a hazard at every stage of its life cycle Philip Landrigan ...

Widespread ocean pollution threatens the health of more than 3 billion people, international study led by Boston College researchers shows Ocean pollution is widespread and getting worse, and when ...

Sustained pollution can damage coastal and ... Some plastics accumulate in the oceans because of their slow degradation rates. Some estimates place as many as 5.25 trillion plastic particles weighing ...

Straws may be considered a small thing in daily life, but they touch the world so much. Now that plastic pollution is making ...

At the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve ... which is the plastic-like quality of seaweed to replace flexible films and bags and wrappers and pouches that are causing so much pollution on our planet ...