”Concentrations were highest in five areas including west of southern South America and east and west of the southern tip of Africa. Plastic junk is floating widely on the world’s oceans, but ...

Ocean Cleanup has also created giant floating "interceptor" booms that gather and remove vast quantities of plastic trash from the world's great rivers before it reaches the oceans. The ...

There are likely hundreds of trillions of pieces of plastic floating around the world’s oceans - and one country has been named the worst polluter. Millions of tons of plastic end up in Earth ...

An estimated 1.15 to 2.41 trillion tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year and its pollution of the waters have impacted at least 267 species worldwide. This includes 44% of all seabird ...

For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic shopping bags ... the United States to turn fracked gas into plastic. This means more plastic in ...

WWF/ Greg Armfield Plastic pollution can now be found everywhere on our planet, not just on beaches and floating in the ocean. Plastics have been found in the air, soil and water, in our food and even ...

Rafael Graça do Prado, 32, who runs a tourism boating business, has told how he spotted the large plastic ball while in the sea off Lazaro Beach near Sao Paulo, Brazil ...

Plastic pollution is one of the most looming environmental crises in the world Be it in the ocean in landfills or even in the air one breathes plastic waste floats flies or moves along winds and river ...

Due to ocean currents gyrating swirls of garbage like fishing nets, plastic water bottles, and other items that wash out of landfills, a floating garbage patch exists throughout the world’s gyres.

Another way is through machines, like this one, that clean up plastic floating in our oceans and bring it back to land to be recycled. Scientists are also working on making a bacteria that could ...

WWF/ Greg Armfield Plastic pollution can now be found everywhere on our planet, not just on beaches and floating in the ocean. Plastics have been found in the air, soil and water, in our food and even ...