Straws might seem insignificant, inspiring jokes about the plastic vs. paper debate, but the plastic straw has come to ...

Plastic Odyssey is a global initiative dedicated to tackling plastic pollution in the world's most affected regions. Over the ...

Plastic is the most prevalent marine pollutant, and plastic surfaces are the fastest growing habitat in the ocean.

More than 390 million plastic straws are used every day in the United States, most for 30 minutes or less, according to ...

These sites act as natural plastic traps, accumulating plastic waste at concentrations up to 400 times higher than the Great Pacific ... states-to-combat-ocean-plastic-pollution-worldwide ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

Projections indicate ocean plastics could double from ... biodiversity loss, and pollution. Building on this leadership, the UNDP Pacific Office pledges to set its own ambitious plastics reduction ...