In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer ...

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 ...

Mark Rowe reports on the failure to agree on an international treaty to limit plastic pollution and what our best hopes are ...

Grandly christened the Plastic Odyssey, this 40-metre long “floating laboratory” is a three-and-half year expedition that set ...

They come from broken-down plastic trash or products like face scrubs ... groups based on marine microplastic levels in the nearby ocean surface. Counties in the low group had zero to 0.005 ...

Whether you see someone litter on purpose or on accident you can be a great citizen and tell them to pick it up. If you do, ...

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is just one of many found across the globe. Efforts to ...

As it stands, existing technologies struggle to degrade plastic ... rotating ocean currents. This current system traps debris and waste, contributing to the nearby Great Pacific Garbage Patch ...