Plastics are durable and strong, which is great while they’re being used but frustrating when they end up in the environment.

Coca-Cola products will account for an estimated 1.33 billion pounds (602,000 metric tonnes) of plastic waste entering the ...

On a foggy morning in 2007, Rebecca Helm was strolling along California’s Monterey Bay, “picking up plastic like you do when you are in love with the ocean and want to protect it,” she recalls. Among ...

About nine million tons of visible plastic trash enter oceans each year—then there’s the waste we can’t see. This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.

There are many ways to reduce plastic, and although it’s hard, it’s not impossible — that is plainly an excuse. We have to do ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

With plastic recovery operations now underway in the world’s marine garbage patches, scientists must contend with how little was known about the organisms living at the surface. Amanda was an ...

but unfortunately our used plastic is getting into the ocean. It can end up causing all sorts of problems for sea life and marine mammals. But how does our plastic waste end up littering the ocean?

Rosenthal chose oddly shaped plastic objects for this composition. Plastics will indeed be the artifacts of our era, particularly in oceans, where the material invades ecosystems and floats around ...

The Ocean Cleanup started removing plastic from the ocean a decade ago. But most of that plastic comes from rivers, so it started building solar-powered river cleaners to catch garbage before it ...

SodaStream, which makes popular home carbonation machines, has unveiled a 1000-foot-long contraption for cleaning plastic waste from ocean waters. CEO Daniel Birnbaum — along with 150 company ...

If The Deep: Plastic Ocean SOS and Blue Planet have inspired you to help out our oceans, this is the page for you! Check out our top tips below for some easy ways you can get involved with ocean ...