Discover the mystery of disappearing plastic waste in our oceans. Every year, 8 million tons of plastics—like bags, cups, and ...

Rocks Binding With Plastics At The Molecular Level Is An Issue Of Growing Concern For The Environment TwistedSifter a quantum ...

The world dumps 2,000 truckloads of plastic into the ocean each day. Here’s where a lot of it ends up Photographs and video by Edu Ponces/RUIDO Photo Story by Angela Dewan, CNN Published April ...

Researchers have found plastic and garbage in the middle of the ocean, hundreds of miles from shore. “Every piece of plastic we’ve ever used is still on our planet,” Crawley said.

Previous annual estimates placed plastic pollution in the ocean at roughly "800–2,400 kilotonnes from rivers and 4,800–23,000 kilotonnes from coastal regions." ...

Fungus breaks down ocean plastic Date: June 3, 2024 Source: Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research Summary: A fungus living in the sea can break down the plastic polyethylene, provided it ...

In the oceans, the most widespread type of plastic pollution may be the kind you can’t see. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature estimates that the North Atlantic Ocean alone ...

About 85% of marine litter is plastic, according to the United Nations. Once these plastics enter a gyre, or an ocean vortex, they stay there until they degrade to microplastics.

In 2022, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act (SB 54), which requires manufacturers to cut single-use plastic waste by 2032 and make ...

Naïve? Perhaps. But I set out to try. By 2013 I had founded the Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit funded by donations and a range of philanthropic partners with the mission to rid the oceans of plastic.

A new ocean-dissolvable plastic from Japan breaks down overnight with no microplastics left behind – safe, strong, and eco-friendly innovation for the future.