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 ...

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

New research reveals that PET-based glitter microplastics can actively influence biomineralization processes in marine ...

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 ...

“It’s really scary,” says Marcus Eriksen, a marine scientist at the 5 Gyres Institute, a nonprofit plastic pollution research organization, who was not involved in the study. The researchers ...

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

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

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

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 ...

A study published in ScienceAdviser investigated the physiological effects of plastic ingestion in seabird chicks, specifically the sable shearwa | Plants And Animals ...

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