Instead of focusing solely on ramping up recycling, the Plastic Pollution Producer Responsibility Act would require companies to cut the amount of plastic in their packaging—and nudge them toward ...

We’ve all seen them. Images of countless turtles, whales, dolphins, sharks, and seals, dead and entangled in abandoned fish nets. The ocean is becoming an increasingly dangerous place for its ...

Boyan Slat, founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, explains the nonprofit's mission to clean up floating plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. I'm an award-winning Video Producer and Host for ...

In the vast, swirling expanse of the North Pacific Ocean lies a phenomenon as intriguing as it is troubling – the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). This colossal debris vortex stretching from ...

Even if plastic pollution stopped entirely today, floating plastic would remain on the surface of the sea for 100 years, ...

A surprising discovery by German researchers has identified fungi capable of breaking down synthetic plastics, potentially offering a natural solution to one of the planet’s biggest environmental ...

With trillions of pieces of plastic littering oceans, threatening ocean and life and economic opportunity, drones, satellites ...

(UTRECHT, Netherlands) — A Dutch foundation dedicated to removing plastic pollution from the world’s oceans announced a new system design today that will allow them to begin an ambitious cleanup plan ...

A new global alliance supports a community-investment project called Renew Oceans as part of its commitment to reduce plastic waste in the environment. Ten rivers transport more than 90% of ...

The Ocean Legacy Foundation has made a breakthrough in cleaning up plastic from the ocean — by recycling it into usable plastic pellets, Inhabitat reports. Currently, the ocean holds about 170 ...

What’s the best way to get plastic out of the ocean? Two nonprofits take different approaches to the problem of removing the 24 billion pounds of plastic that flow into the ocean each year—and face ...

Marine plastic pollution is a bigger problem than some may realize. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), at least 14 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean ...