Ocean Cleanup Foundation Modelled mass concentration of plastic in the area The use of aerial surveys as well as boats could partly explain why the new estimates are higher than in the past.

of the predicted plastic mass on the global ocean floor residing above a depth of 200m. The depths of the ocean, from 200m to as deep as 11,000m, contain the remainder (54 percent)of the predicted ...

These plastic particles, measuring less than 5 millimetres ... around 24,400 billion microplastics are floating on the ocean’s surface. These particles are found in all marine organisms ...

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 ...

Trying to solve the world's ocean plastic pollution problem has been a "long and painful journey" for Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat. The 28-year-old founder of non-profit environmental ...

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 ...

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?

Experts express concern about the impact on the environment of initiatives by organisations that allow waste collection ...

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 ...