On recovering discarded plastic from a great depth, the experts were taken aback to see its shape perfectly impact and there ...

W hen most people think of ocean plastic pollution, they think of what's visible—bottles washing up on shore, and grocery bags floating in the water. Far more insidious is the e ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic ... it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and ...

Plastic is certainly tough, but if this bag had been floating around in the ocean for four decades you’d expect it to be at least a bit more mangled. Some have suggested that the bag had spent ...

There are 12-21 million tons of tiny plastic fragments floating in the Atlantic Ocean, scientists have found ... We now find more disposable masks than plastic bags. “What we're really asking ...

Plastic is all around us. Most of us use it every day. It’s a really useful material that has transformed all our lives, but unfortunately our used plastic is getting into the ocean. It can end ...

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.

is located in Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and California. It's estimated to contain more than 1.8 trillion pieces of floating plastic - the equivalent of 250 pieces of debris for every person on ...

The Ocean Cleanup project was created by Boyan Slat at the age of 22. $30 Million has been raised to fund his idea. It's set to help clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch located between Hawaii ...

The Ocean Cleanup uses a boom to capture plastic and keep it in areas where a boat can come and periodically pick it up. The pipe moves with the waves and uses floating anchors. Critics are ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic ... it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and ...