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 ...

The deepest point in the Mediterranean Sea is littered with literal trash, starkly highlighting how human activity is ...

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 ...

With plastic recovery operations now underway in the world’s marine garbage patches, scientists must contend with how little was known about the organisms living at the surface. Amanda was an ...

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 ...

An estimated 8 million tons of plastic enter the ocean every year ... 80% of marine litter comes from plastic waste. This includes a vast array of items such as plastic bags, bottles, fishing ...

Rainwater and wind carries plastic waste into streams and rivers ... but there are many more items that can also contribute to the problem. How does plastic get into the ocean? The bottom line is us.

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 urban population, however, have started supplementing their nesting material with something much more long-lasting—plastic trash created ... packaging ranged from items like milk and ...