When Gaurika Pant attended her first beach clean-up in 2017, she was appalled by the amount of plastic she saw washed up on the shore. “I saw a different side of the ocean that day,” says the ...

Every year, more than 8 million tons of plastic enter the ocean - bags, cups, straws, and many other items from the daily ...

Over 60,000 Bottles of Popular Women’s Supplement Recalled Over ‘Poisoning’ Risk 125,000-year-old 'fat factory' run by ...

Tonnes of plastic are dumped into our oceans each year With talks in Nice centred around ensuring oceans are protected, an ambitious plastics treaty is key to this goal. "Every year, over 400 ...

Plastic waste in the ocean has continued to be a topic of interest in the United States and globally. This plastic study will bring experts together to study the United States contributions to global ...

The study adds weight to less formal analyses of plastic bag bans conducted by advocacy organizations and could inform negotiations later this summer over the United Nations’ global plastics ...

The researchers found that plastic bag policies led to a 25% to 47% decrease in plastic bags as a share of total items ...

The find may not have been as shocking as it first seemed, however. Tires are actually among the most common plastic polluters on earth. A 2017 study by Pieter Jan Kole at The Open University of ...

Ministers from 95 countries – including France – on Tuesday backed calls for a global treaty to restrict plastic production, on the sidelines of the 2025 UN Ocean Conference in Nice.

But just nine percent of plastic is recycled globally and every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks worth of plastic waste is dumped into oceans, rivers and lakes.

While researchers often warn that a lack of standardized protocols risks muddying the waters, the research shows that public ...