According to UNESCO, plastic waste makes up 80% of all marine pollution, with 8–10 million metric tons of plastic making its ...

You see photos of plastic pollution in the ocean, but it can be hard to connect that to the plastic you're buying and using every day. Here are three ways the plastic you throw away can end up in the ...

But if some of it does end up in the ocean, it will be far less harmful, and possibly even beneficial, compared to current plastic waste. A paper describing the research was published in the ...

According to the document, plastics numbers in the report were calculated from two sources: "Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean," a peer-reviewed study by Jenna Jambeck published in ...

Although little is known about these species, which range from the size of a grain of sand to that of a hefty grapefruit, some scientists stress that groups such as The Ocean Cleanup that are invested ...

The Ocean Cleanup started removing plastic from the ocean a decade ago. But most of that plastic comes from rivers, so it started building solar-powered river cleaners to catch garbage before it ...

This story is part of Planet or Plastic?—our multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic waste crisis. Learn what you can do to reduce your own single-use plastics. Read this ...

Plastic bag bans may not be the best way to keep plastics out of the ocean, argues Todd Myers. Jay Karr Island Packet We don’t want plastic in the ocean. Most plastic degrades slowly ...