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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean surfaces. At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the ...

University of Waterloo researchers have pinpointed for the first time how microplastics accumulate in coral reefs, a key step ...

WWF/ Greg Armfield Plastic pollution can now be found everywhere on our planet, not just on beaches and floating in the ocean. Plastics have been found in the air, soil and water, in our food and even ...

"Fishing gear remains in situ for a long time and in practice turns the ocean into a plastic landfill site ... This is because the materials that are used float up to the surface, where their ...

The Ocean Cleanup uses a boom to capture plastic and keep it in areas where a boat can come and periodically pick it up. The pipe moves with the waves and uses floating anchors. Critics are ...

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 ...

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?