Plastic Pollution

Entanglement in plastic pollution, mainly discarded fishing lines and nets, is causing horrific injuries to hundreds of Cape fur seals every year. These are the first results from an ongoing project, which started in 2018, to investigate the effects of pollution on Cape fur seals in Namibia. The seals are…

Colombo/Bangkok, 20 August 2021 – With new research showing the major role that rivers play in bringing plastic pollution to the oceans, countries are looking for ways to tackle the root causes of the problem in their own waterways. In response, the Sri Lankan government is set to partner with…

International consensus needed to address escalating plastic pollution issue A University of Wollongong (UOW) researcher is part of an international team who have called for a global agreement to address the growing scourge of plastic pollution. Dr Karen Raubenheimer, from UOW’s Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources (ANCORS), is the…

21 August 2021 - 15:27 Plastic fishing line and nets are causing horrific injuries to Cape fur seals and can result in slow, painful death. Image: Dr Tess Gridley Cape fur seals disentangled from fishing lines and nets “face a very painful and uncertain future”, a new study has found.…

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An olive ridley sea turtle, a species of the sea turtle superfamily. Credit: Thierry Caro/Wikipedia Plastic pollution creates an "evolutionary trap" for young sea turtles, new research shows. The study, led by the University of Exeter, found plastic inside small juvenile turtles along both the east (Pacific) and west (Indian…

EnvironmentPlanet or Plastic?The plastic pollution crisis has been widely blamed on a handful of Asian countries, but new research shows just how much the U.S. contributes. ByLaura Parker Published October 30, 2020 • 9 min read When the Environmental Protection Agency released its plan earlier this month for addressing marine…

Riverrecycle and Clean Planet Energy have today announced that they have entered into a partnership agreement in a bid to support global efforts of removing non-recyclable plastics from rivers and the environment in Southeast Asia, and then re-purposing the waste as new ultra-clean fuels. The focus of the partnership begins…

Catching a big blue barrel floating on the ocean surface in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch from the German research vessel SONNE during expedition SO268/3 crossing the North Pacific Ocean from Vancouver to Singapore in summer, 2019. Credit: ©Roman Kroke UFZ Current rates of plastic emissions globally may trigger effects…

Plastic is the most common type of debris floating in the world’s oceans. Waves and sunlight break much of it down into smaller particles called microplastics—fragments less than 5 millimeters across, roughly the size of a sesame seed. To understand how microplastic pollution is affecting the ocean, scientists need to…