Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

The Ocean Cleanup aims to be a temporary effort, with the ambition to reduce floating ocean plastic pollution by 90% by 2040. We will cease to exist once our mission of clean oceans has been achieved.

A group of scientists analyzing global data collected over the past four decades have found a "rapid increase" in ocean plastic pollution since 2005, according to a research article published in ...

The Latest. There’s less plastic pollution flowing into the ocean from land than scientists previously thought, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience.. The ...

Previous annual estimates placed plastic pollution in the ocean at roughly "800–2,400 kilotonnes from rivers and 4,800–23,000 kilotonnes from coastal regions." ...

According to a December 2023 report in one5c, as of 2021, the Philippines contributes more than 356,000 metric tons of plastic pollution to the ocean each year. This tragic number is potentially ...

The world’s oceans are polluted by a “plastic smog” made up of an estimated 171 trillion plastic particles that if gathered would weigh around 2.3 million tons, according to a new study.

Ocean floor a 'reservoir' of plastic pollution Date: April 4, 2024 Source: CSIRO Australia Summary: New science has taken a deep dive into plastic waste, providing the first estimate of how much ...

Humans have filled the world’s oceans with more than 170 trillion pieces of plastic, dramatically more than previously estimated, according to a major study released Wednesday. The trillions of ...

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal ...