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

You see photos of plastic pollution in the ocean ... Microfibres are even released into waterways when we wash our clothes in the washing machine. They are too small to be filtered out by waste water ...

No one knows how much unrecycled plastic waste ends up in the ocean ... but is dumped carelessly on land or in rivers, mostly in Asia. It’s then blown or washed into the sea.

George Leonard is the chief scientist for the Ocean Conservancy ... sort of break down and fracture into smaller and smaller bits of plastic as a result of being tossed around by the waves ...

Plastic is choking our oceans. Sir David Attenborough told us during Blue Planet 2 that “we dump eight million tonnes of plastic into the sea every year ... Plastic is found in the deepest reaches of ...

Much of the plastic that does not end up in landfill or go through other waste management pathways (such as recycling or incineration) is thought to end up in the ocean. Between 4.8 and 12.7 million ...