You may have seen images of seabirds that have built their nests on discarded nets, lengths of rope and other plastic litter, ...

Volunteers here have an almost full-time job scooping up the corpses. kilograms of plastic have entered the ocean since you started reading They have tried to clean Midway up; the huge dump of ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

Plastic pollution backgrounder - Links to UN organizations, documents, publications, speeches and statements, UN conferences and observances ...

Trucks full of plastic bottles pull into a recycling ... It’s really just a declaration of a good intention—the intention to end ocean plastic pollution. In that way it’s less like the ...

Marisa Marzilli and Bonnie Monteleone with the Plastic Ocean Project (POP) visited the WECT studio to discuss the special ...

The oceans, once pristine, are now under siege from plastic waste. Each year, between 8 to 12 million tons of plastic find their way into the sea. This is akin to dumping a garbage truck full of ...

(Photo by ANDER GILLENEA / AFP) (Photo credit should read ANDER GILLENEA/AFP via Getty Images) When people tend to think of plastic pollution and the oceans, they usually think of discarded soda ...

Vote for a strong global treaty on plastic pollution Plastic pollution is suffocating our rivers and ocean, killing wildlife and contaminating our food, air and water. Without immediate action, ...