Plastic Pollution

(CNN)A teenager from Ireland may have found a way to rescue our oceans from the growing plastic pollution problem. A walk on the beach led Fionn Ferreira to develop his project on microplastic extraction from water for the annual Google Science Fair. The pro…

Fionn Ferreira lives on a remote island in West Cork, a seaside region in southern Ireland. One day while kayaking, he spotted a rock on the shore that had been coated in oil from a recent spill. Attached to the rock were tiny bits of plastic less than five m…

Media captionWhat do shoppers think about Waitrose's trial? Waitrose is extending a trial to remove packaging from many products after a positive response in its first store. The "Unpacked" scheme was tested in Oxford, with customers using their own contain…

Thousands of plastic bags were pulled from the Aegean Sea off Greece’s Andros island this month by a team of divers and environmentalists who described what they found as a “gulf full of plastic corals". "It was a very scary thing to see," said Arabella Ross…

Glitter is the basis of many parties, most figure-skater costumes, and Kesha’s entire makeup case. Glitter is also a sparkly microplastic that pollutes the planet, doesn’t decompose, and gets absolutely everywhere (as in, everywhere), a truly party-pooping fa…

Glitter is the basis of many parties, most figure-skater costumes, and Kesha’s entire makeup case. Glitter is also a sparkly microplastic that pollutes the planet, doesn’t decompose, and gets absolutely everywhere (as in, everywhere), a truly party-pooping fa…

A cyclist who has completed a 7,000-kilometre ride around the British coastline, helping clean up beaches alongside local volunteers, says she retrieved more than 3.4 tonnes of plastic pollution during her journey, which lasted almost three months. Kiko Matt…

The fight to save the seas from plastic waste may mean the end for mini bottles of shampoo and other toiletries that hotel guests love to stuff into their luggage. The owner of Holiday Inn and InterContinental Hotels said Tuesday that its nearly 843,000 gues…

DALLAS, TEXAS - JULY 23: Adam Lambert (L) and Brian May of Queen + Adam Lambert perform in concert during 'The Rhapsody Tour' at the American Airlines Center on July 23, 2019 in Dallas, Texas. (Photo by Rick Kern/Getty Images) Getty Images Global Citizen un…

(CNN)Seabirds are becoming smaller, lighter and suffering from a litany of health problems after ingesting the plastic that litters the world's oceans, a study has found. Researchers analyzed blood samples from a population of flesh-footed shearwaters on Lor…