Eight billion tonnes of plastic have been produced since 1950. Much of it lies unrecycled in dumps, in the ocean or on beaches. (Photo: M. Gaspar/IAEA) Over 5000 kilometres from the nearest major land ...

Troy Mayne / WWF The health, resilience and productivity of marine and coastal ecosystems is increasingly affected by pollution, including land-based nutrient, pesticide and plastic pollution. WWF and ...

The main source of ocean plastic pollution is land-based—80% of plastic in the ocean originates on land. But what does that really mean? Where is it coming from? There are three main ways plastic ends ...

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050. Plastics pollution has a direct and deadly effect on wildlife. Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other ...

KTLA’s new ocean conservation series ‘Saving Our Seas’ dives into one of the largest and most worrisome issues facing our planet… the plastic problem. It’s a compounding catastrophe that ...

In addition to mechanical effects, microplastics have chemical impacts, because free-floating pollutants that wash off the land and into ... to act to reduce plastic pollution from entering ...

which is when rubbish is illegally dumped either on land or in water. The government agrees more needs to be done to tackle plastic pollution. "For too long plastic waste has littered our streets ...

both on land and sea. Microplastics, including plastic pellets are now found everywhere — in our oceans, seas and even in the food we eat. Each year, the equivalent of up to 7,300 truckloads of ...

Journal articles report findings of macro-organisms like meal worms and wax moth as solutions for plastic waste management. Furthermore, biodegradability in closed loop managed disposal systems like ...

According to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, up to 40 per cent of the planet’s land ... pollution beyond safe guidelines will increase by 50 per cent within the decade and plastic ...

But one part of the country is leading the way in tackling the plastic pollution crisis by introducing the first recycling machines. The trailblazing initiative was the brainwave of West Suffolk ...