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Supposedly biodegradable plastic bags remain useable three years after being dropped in the sea or buried underground, researchers have found.
Save Our Seas 2.0 is sponsored by Sen. Dan Sullivan. It emphasizes outreach to other countries and includes a "genius" prize.
The world population is living, working, vacationing, increasingly conglomerating along the coasts, and standing on the front row of the greatest, most unprecedented, plastic waste tide ever faced. Washed out on our coasts in obvious and clearly visible form, the plastic pollution spectacle blatantly unveiling on our beaches is only the prelude of the greater story that unfolded further away in the world's oceans, yet mostly originating from where we stand: the land.
Plastic trash is now so ubiquitous that researchers have found hundreds of tons of it floating in the Arctic Ocean.
One liter of water from the Mariana Trench contains thousands of tiny plastic pieces, according to new research.
Marine scientists discovered an ocean-borne fungus chomping through plastic trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Ocean plastic has created a unique home for specialised organisms, from animals that travel on it to bacteria that ‘eat’ it
Let's talk about the history of plastics and how we became such a plastic society. How did a material that is literally designed to last forever end up surrounding us in the form of straws, bags, bottles, utensils, and packaging that’s intended to be used for just minutes?
In the vast stretch of ocean between California and Hawaii, there’s a patch of plastic twice the size of Texas—and it’s between four and 16 times the size scientists previously thought.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has hinted that restrictions on single-use plastic could be announced soon.
Made in the UK & filled with recycled ocean plastics
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. The Ocean Cleanup array, designed to clean plastics from the ocean like a baleen whale, is one of these good intentions: experts in marine plastics, including myself, say it's a bad idea.Technological fixes like the Array do harm to the larger project of ending plastic pollution,…
Surfers Against Sewage was delighted to welcome the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall to the Ocean Plastics Awareness Day on Fistral Beach in July 2015.
It all seems so daunting: plastics in the ocean, dying coral reefs, entire species being wiped out — but don't click away in despair!
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a massive accumulation of plastics in the Pacific Ocean.
Christopher Ward teams up with #tide to produce straps from ocean bound plastics, put in use on their new dive watch the C60 #tide
In 1997 Captain Charles Moore was sailing from Hawaii to California when he noticed a steady stream of plastics bobbing in the ocean. He had discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
