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 ...

When plastics enter the ocean they breakdown into small pieces ... with the public and policy makers to encourage smarter plastic usage. Video courtesy of the University of Exeter and Snowline ...

These objects have little in common beyond their shades of white—and their slow degradation by ocean waves ... But these items don’t go away: Scientists believe some plastic trash lasts ...

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 ...

The Ocean Cleanup started removing plastic from the ocean a decade ago. But most of that plastic comes from rivers, so it started building solar-powered river cleaners to catch garbage before it ...

Much of the plastic that does not end up in landfill or go through other waste management ... enter the ocean each year, according to figures published in the journal Science in 2015. Plastic can ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

The Ocean Cleanup has, since 2013, deployed its extensively long, technologically advanced nets that have trapped hundreds of tons of plastic. However, the disassembling of this garbage patch is ...

The driver of the boat, the 15 year old, tossed garbage into the ocean that included plastic water bottles, cans, food bags, ...

The first ever assessment of litter in Mediterranean's deepest place located in Greece's eastern Ionian Sea has detected huge ...