A 2016 report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation claimed that by 2050 there would be 850 tons of plastic in the oceans and ...

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050. Plastics pollution has a direct and deadly effect on wildlife. Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other ...

Binning gum is not the solution either. Addressing gum as a plastic pollutant dictates that the prevention of gum pollution ...

By coring the seabed at 850 m water depth in Disko Bay off Greenland's west coast, researchers from the University of ...

"The size of the faucet highlights the magnitude of the plastic pollution problem," says Benjamin Von Wong, referring to The ...

Rivers such as Manafwa, Sironko, and Nabuyonga, among others, are increasingly clogged due to poor plastic disposal and sand ...

Nanoplastics in water hindered oxygen transport in zebrafish, underscoring their toxic impact on aquatic health.

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. In 2015, video of a marine biologist pulling a plastic straw out of a turtle's nose sparked outrage worldwide ...

P-Life Japan and researchers discovered microorganisms that biodegrade polypropylene plastic with "P-Life Technology" into ...

Plastic waste is increasingly causing problems for fishers. Fishnets bring up bottles, propellers get tangled in bags, water ...

A researcher has identified a surprising source of plastic pollution: chewing gum. In an essay for The Conversation, microplastics expert David Jones of the UK's University of Portsmouth revealed ...

"One hundred percent of plastic marine debris tested have either similar or stronger acoustic target strengths compared with that of whale prey items," the authors report in a paper appearing online ...