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? Even if you live hundreds of miles away from the sea ...

The newly-published EU Coastline Macro Litter Trend report found that the amount of marine macro litter (items bigger than ...

"It’s littering plain and simple." Resident shares striking before-and-after cleanup video following cleanup: 'People fail to ...

When rubbish is being transported to landfill, plastic is often blown away because it’s so lightweight. From there, it can eventually clutter around drains and enter rivers and the sea this way.

He started building and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution. Eventually he began to gather the detritus to use as his art materials, cleaning a ...

On recovering discarded plastic from a great depth, the experts were taken aback to see its shape perfectly impact and there ...

Roughly eight million tons of plastic enters the ocean every year. That’s according to a 2015 report, which also identified where the bulk of this trash originates. At the top of the list ...

Some 8 million tons of plastic trash leak into the ocean annually, and it's getting worse every year. Americans are said to use 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour. Nothing is an emergency ...

Currently, trash boats patrol harbors and marinas and ... Two Australian surfers found an innovative way to clean up the ocean: ocean garbage cans. Aptly named Seabin, these garbage cans float ...