Minimize your plastic use to help protect the ocean." "This makes me so sad," a commenter said. "We need to do better." "I ...

Such an amount of plastic, 21 million tons, would be enough to fully load almost 1,000 container ships. Findings are published in the journal Nature Communications There are 12-21 million tons of ...

Ocean Cleanup has also created giant floating "interceptor" booms that gather and remove vast quantities of plastic trash from the world's great rivers before it reaches the oceans. The ...

You may have seen images of seabirds that have built their nests on discarded nets, lengths of rope and other plastic litter, ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

A rising tide of plastic waste is choking our oceans, threatening fragile ecosystems and killing sea life. While plastic has revolutionised our way of life since it was invented in the 1950s, the ...

but unfortunately our used plastic is getting into the ocean. It can end up causing all sorts of problems for sea life and marine mammals. But how does our plastic waste end up littering the ocean?

Join the conversation in our Facebook group. Among the five trillion bits of plastic floating around the ocean are weird curlicues like these—shavings from various fabrication or drilling processes.

The Ocean Cleanup project was created by Boyan Slat at the age of 22. $30 Million has been raised to fund his idea. It's set to help clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch located between Hawaii ...

has approached the problem of ocean plastic more thoughtfully. The group divvies out geolocating tags to volunteers passing through the GPGP to flag large pieces of debris such as ghost nets, disused ...

David Attenborough challenges you to swim through the ocean and dodge all the plastic floating around! This interactive video is designed for the whole family to join in with the fun.