A rising tide of plastic waste is choking our oceans, threatening fragile ecosystems and killing sea life. While plastic has revolutionised our way of life since it was invented in the 1950s, the ...

Recent findings from CSIRO, Australia's leading science agency, and the University of Toronto reveal that approximately 11 million tons of plastic waste is currently accumulated on the ocean bed.

Barry Rosenthal started collecting plastic garbage on a New York shoreline ... studio for months—sometimes years—until a critical mass of color emerges. These objects have little in common ...

Flesh-footed shearwaters, large, sooty brown seabirds that nest on islands off the coasts of Australia and New Zealand, eat more plastic as a proportion of their body mass than any other marine ...

Artistic rendering of the new plastic. Cross linked salt bridges visible in the plastic outside the seawater give it its ...

but unfortunately our used plastic is getting into the ocean. 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?

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 ...

Credit: Research paper While this foam won’t single-handedly solve our ocean plastic crisis, it represents a promising direction in environmental remediation. The challenge now lies in scaling ...

Plastic fills our dumps, homes and oceans. Plastic pollution takes a huge toll on wildlife: More than 700 species, including sea turtles, fish and whales, eat plastic or get tangled up in it. Plastic ...

The plastic toys are incredibly durable, but that makes them an absolute nightmare when it comes to ocean pollution ... them to determine how much mass each brick had lost over time.

While the threat that microplastics pose to human and ecological health has been richly documented and is well known, nanoplastics ...