In the oceans, the most widespread type of plastic pollution may be the kind you can’t see. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature estimates that the North Atlantic Ocean alone contains ...

The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, otherwise known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," is considered the world's largest accumulation of ocean plastic. It's so massive, in fact, that researchers ...

Researchers developed a plant based plastic that stays strong during use but dissolves safely in seawater, leaving no ...

A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts and its partners predicts that plastic pollution will more than double over the ...

When you think of plastic pollution in the ocean, you might picture bottles and bags floating on the surface of the sea, a “seventh continent” made up entirely of plastic waste, or all of that ...

Documents reveal one of Australia's biggest oil and gas companies knowingly shed plastic into the ocean for two months before ...

After trawling through some forty years’ worth of data, scientists have identified a foreboding “plastic smog” pervading our oceans that comprises more than 171 trillion plastic particles, according ...

The good news is that, according to recent research in the journal Nature Geoscience, we’re dumping less plastic into the ocean than previously estimated. The bad news is that it’s still a dangerously ...

When it comes to plastic wrapping on food, your first instinct may be that it should be reduced a much as possible, but it ...

Some 8 million metric tons of plastic debris end up in the ocean each year, the equivalent of a garbage truck every minute. At the current pace, the seas may have more plastic than fish by the middle ...

People can help reduce plastic pollution by changing their habits, however governments have to step up and share the burden of tackling the problem. AFP via Getty Images BERLIN — Plastic pollution at ...

The Social Responsibility Framework is designed to help waste pickers, the informal workers who help keep tons of plastic from washing into the world's oceans. There are about 20 million waste pickers ...