Plastics are everywhere—from your phone case to the containers holding your food. They're cheap, light, and strong, which ...

What makes plastic useful for people—its durability and light weight—increases the threat to animals. Plastic hangs around a long time, and a lot of it floats. “Single-use plastics are the ...

But on that day a breeze created a light chop that ... and in what condition. The blue glove hasn’t been in the water long enough to suffer the fate of most ocean plastic, which is to be ...

Plastic rubbish is really light and it can be blown off landfill sites or rubbish bins, it then enters drains and rivers and makes its way to the ocean. Plastic litter dropped on the street doesn ...

Plastic constitutes 70–80% of all waste in oceans, posing problems for ecosystem and marine life. At the G20 summit in Japan in 2019, 87 countries and regions endorsed the Osaka Blue Ocean ...