Barry Rosenthal started collecting plastic garbage on a New York shoreline. His photographs reveal the variety of water-borne trash. Rosenthal chose oddly shaped plastic objects for this composition.

Planet or Plastic? is National Geographic’s multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic trash crisis. Come to this page often to learn more, and find out what you can do to ...

Here’s an easy-to-use guide to recycling in the Sacramento area: Around the world, the triangle-shaped symbol found on recyclable items is called the “chasing arrows,” and includes corresponding ...

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 ...

The urban population, however, have started supplementing their nesting material with something much more long-lasting—plastic trash created by humans. Since plastic never truly disappears ...

The Ocean Cleanup started removing plastic from the ocean a decade ago. But most of that plastic comes from rivers, so it started building solar-powered river cleaners to catch garbage before it ...

In fact, the campaign’s website contains almost nothing about the harms of plastic, other than its sea turtle logo — a reference ... your fridge and pantry and trash — and choose one or ...

Visitors lingering over an alfresco meal in the French Riviera fishing village of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat might be surprised to discover that the catch of the day is plastic trash. Since May, this ...

It is estimated that by 2050 plastic trash in the oceans will outweigh all ... reduce plastic use and promote plastic recycling with a logo to mark the change. With the law scheduled to take ...