Once considered remote and pristine, the Arctic is now succumbing to a tide of plastic. In Norway, a monumental effort is ...

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 ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

Global Production Every year, the world produces a staggering 400 million tons of plastic. This sheer volume of production is ...

The Ubiquity of Plastic in Our Lives Plastic has become an inevitable part of modern life. If you look around, almost ...

More than five trillion pieces of plastic are already in the oceans, and by 2050 there will be more plastic in the sea than fish, by weight, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

A British invention developed near to Rachel Reeves ’ constituency in Leeds could solve the world’s biggest cause of plastic ...

In the ocean the plastic breaks down into smaller and smaller parts, which can be eaten by fish and thus enter the food chain. So it is a problem not just for marine animals but also for humans.

“We also looked at the processed versions of fish that you buy from ... “smog of microplastics” in the ocean is the result of various sectors of plastic use in society from microfibers ...

so it remains strong when used for fishing but decomposes quickly when it becomes garbage in the sea. This could help reduce the amount of plastic waste in the ocean, lessening the incidence of ...

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 ...