The beaches of Henderson Island have been found to be polluted with the highest density of plastic debris reported anywhere on the planet
The Ocean Cleanup now with their groundbreaking new arrays, they will be able to scoop up 50 percent of the patch’s plastic just five years.
A chance observation by a researcher in Spain could help humans reduce the ecological damage caused by polyethylene-based packaging.
Roughly eight million tons of plastic enters the ocean every year. That’s according to a 2015 report, which also identified where the bulk of this trash originates. At the top of the list: China, the Philippines, and Indonesia.
Kenya has banned the manufacture and import of all plastic bags used for commercial and household packing. It's the latest African nation to do so.
Dell project will recycle "ocean plastic" into product packaging.
On the first day of the new year, India’s capital city of Delhi issued a ban on all disposable forms of plastic.
Since the plastic bag tax has been introduced to the United Kingdom, there have been 40% less plastic bags per 100 meters of beach.
California just made history by becoming the first state in the USA to officially ban plastic bags.
Gov. Mapp sings proposal into law Oct. 7, 2016. This will restrict the use of plastic shopping bags in the territory beginning in 2017.
The Ocean Cleanup, a foundation developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic, has just presented the initial findings of its Aerial Expedition.
Current measurement methods may be vastly underestimating the amount of plastic in the oceans. A 2015 paper published in Science estimates that anywhere from 4.8 million to 12.7 million metric tons of plastic were dumped into the ocean in 2010 alone.
Japanese scientists have discovered a bacterium that produces a never-before-seen enzyme that can fully break down PET plastics.
