Documenting the garbage along New Jersey beaches helps state lawmakers make policy decisions on plastic pollution, says this ...

Last year, volunteers removed nearly 277,000 pieces of trash, most of it plastic ... on these items, we see less on the beaches." On Saturday, April 12, Clean Ocean Action is organizing another ...

A sink was one of the more unusual items picked ... during Clean Ocean Action's 2024 Beach Sweeps. Last year, volunteers removed nearly 277,000 pieces of trash, most of it plastic, from these ...

Toys, electronics and road signs were among the more unusual items ... plastic waste, which last year made up more than 80% of debris collected. More than 50,000 bottle caps comprised the bulk of ...

The results show plastic pollution "remains a huge problem for our marine environment", the charity said. During MCS beach cleans, volunteers go through stretches of beach picking up items of ...

I was on my way to see a man who would help me make sense of the whole mess we’ve made with plastic, especially in the ocean. After sheets of clear plastic trash ... The items would take 40 ...

Plastic pollution has reached every corner of our planet, from the highest mountaintops to deep ocean trenches ... around 400 million tonnes of plastic waste annually. And around 85 per cent ...

Every year, more than 8 million tons of plastic enter the ocean - bags, cups, straws, and many other items from the daily ... where it was going - after all, garbage patches on the shores and ...

However, the volunteers, undeterred, wielded grabber tools with precision, retrieving everything from stray plastic bottles to rogue pieces of cardboard. Some even brought their own buckets, ...

Human activities have introduced plastic debris into the marine environment, meaning marine life can no longer move freely without the risk of entanglement in items such as discarded ... the scourge ...