Scientists now estimate that around 8M tons of plastic waste pour into the ocean every year, forming swirling gyres of debris ...

A persistent claim shared by high-profile sources such as the United Nations, (archived) (archived) World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (archived) says ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in bottles and clothes. Researchers at KAUST discovered that a unique molecular ...

A family collect plastic waste on the shore inn Ocean Conservancy's clean up in the Norwegian Northern town of Skjervøy. Plastic bag bans in the U.S. have proven effective in reducing plastic litter ...

Kate Spencer receives funding from NERC, Lloyd's Register Foundation and EU Interreg IV programme Preventing Plastic Pollution Nan Wu works for Queen Mary University of London and the British ...

Scientists have detected microplastics in the farthest reaches of the ocean. A teen from Ireland may have found the solution to rid world's oceans from the microplastics that are near impossible to ...