You may have seen images of seabirds that have built their nests on discarded nets, lengths of rope and other plastic litter, ...

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 ...

Ropes and fishing gear used in the fisheries and aquaculture industries are a major source of microplastics in the ocean and littering along the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

In 2024 The Ocean Cleanup reports that they've removed over 24 million pounds of trash from the world's oceans and waterways. Needless to say, that's a staggeringly impressive number. "This total ...

Sackfuls of litter were collected by dozens of volunteers at two separate beach cleans in Burnham-On-Sea and Berrow on ...