Rivers carry plastic across continents, so scientists tracked its movement across continents too. A sweeping new UC Santa Barbara-led study spanning four continents and eight countries has amassed one ...

Plastic Ocean Project will host its 5th Annual “For the Ocean Gala” on Saturday, April 25, from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Aloft ...

ODU's Earth Day theme was Planet vs Plastics and exploring ways to cut plastic waste through recycling and innovative ...

Boyan Slat made waves when he was just a teenager with an audacious dream to rid the world’s oceans of plastic waste. Slat’s first TEDx Talk went viral in 2012, as the founder and CEO of The Ocean ...

Researchers at the University of Adelaide have proposed a roadmap to solve the crises ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Plastic Ocean Project will hold its 5th annual For the Ocean Gala this spring to raise funds for a new headquarters. The gala will include dinner, drinks, live and silent ...

A Rising Tide of Plastic in Art,” on display at the ArtRage Gallery, showcases works created by the members of Project Vortex ...

Plastic bags tangled in trees. Takeout containers scattered along roadsides. Bottles clogging streams and waterways and washing up on beaches. Across the United States, plastic waste and pollution ...

Come on the Nurdle Patrol to help local and international efforts to monitor and reduce plastic pollution in and near our waterways. Nurdles are key inputs into plastics manufacturing, but also an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Hailstone is a U.K-based reporter, who covers sustainability. TOPSHOT - A gigantic hydraulic and solar-powered machine ...

Every year, many millions of tons of plastic end up in the ocean. It's a serious and rapidly increasing environmental problem. Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) ...

Researchers have identified more than 600,000 microbial proteins capable of breaking down natural and synthetic plastics, ...