Every year, more than 8 million tons of plastic enter the ocean - bags, cups, straws, and many other items from the daily ...

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 ...

Plastic is choking our oceans. Sir David Attenborough told us during Blue Planet ... Turtles eat plastic bags mistaking them for jellyfish Seabirds are found with their stomachs full of plastic items ...

(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 ...

Marisa Marzilli and Bonnie Monteleone with the Plastic Ocean Project (POP) visited the WECT studio to ... “That money goes towards research. We have a full-on research facility at UNCW we actually pay ...

Ropes and fishing gear used in the fisheries and aquaculture industries are a major source of microplastics in the ocean and littering along the ...