Plastic is versatile and convenient to use, but it's not exactly eco-friendly. One look at the floating island of plastic in ...

The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, otherwise known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," is considered the world's largest accumulation of ocean plastic. It's so massive, in fact, that ...

The innovative idea is a floating barrier that will gather the mass of plastic bits from bottles, bags, fishing nets and ... where The Ocean Cleanup foundation plans to perform a yearlong series ...

A 2,000 foot-long floating pipe nicknamed Wilson is about to start its mission to collect all the plastic in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Last month, the Ocean Cleanup foundation launched the ...

A single-use plastic bag was among the 3,500 ... not what is floating above it, therefore demonstrating the deepest evidence of the ocean’s pollution problem. "As the deep sea is likely to ...

But the new evidence suggests that for a lot of birds, plastic actually smells like food. It all comes down to a common kind of algae floating in the ocean. The algae is food for tiny animals such ...

published a study that estimated similar amounts of plastic floating in the ocean. “Even with the lower estimates of the amount of plastics entering the ocean each year, we are still faced with ...

Minimize your plastic use to help protect the ocean." "This makes me so sad," a commenter said. "We need to do better." "I literally thought it was a jellyfish for a second," another commenter ...

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 ...

And the original idea was to have a very long floating barrier in the middle of the ocean attached to the ... of the highest per capita users of plastic bags. But in 2019 banned them.

you might imagine ocean "garbage patches" swirling with tens of millions of plastic bottles and shopping bags. But unfolding alongside the "macroplastic" pollution crisis is another threat caused ...