Plastic Pollution

New Zealand officially banned single-use plastic shopping bags Monday, introducing hefty fines for businesses that continue to provide them. Plastic pollution has become a growing global concern, with a million birds and more than 100,000 marine mammals inju…

When artist Chris Jordan first photographed the bodies of dead albatross chicks on Midway Island a decade ago—creating the now iconic images showing bottlecaps and other plastic fragments that filled the birds’ stomachs before they died—the images helped cata…

The naturalist David Attenborough, 93, appeared onstage at the Glastonbury festival in England on Sunday to praise its ban on single-use plastic bottles, delighting festivalgoers who have instead lined up for tap water. Attenboroughs Blue Planet II documenta…

Plastic waste has led to the rise of plastic pollution, a feat that we have yet to fully defeat by segregating our garbage or by proper waste disposal. It seems that there is another feat of plastic pollution that we need to defeat : Researchers have identif…

(SAN FRANCISCO) — In a mission to clean up trash floating in the ocean, environmentalists pulled 40 tons (36 metric tons) of abandoned fishing nets this month from an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Mariners on a 140-foot (43-meter) cargo sail…

Pepsico announced yesterday several initiatives to reduce the amount of plastic it uses for its beverages. The food giant, with a market cap of around $184.35 billion, said that next year, its Lifewtr brand will be packaged in 100 percent recycled PET (a for…

Plastic pollution isn’t what it used to be. Sure, there are still plastic bottles bobbing around the Pacific and those cursed balloons from Frozen sunken into the seafloor. But there’s a new generation of plastic that’s a little less obvious and a lot more in…

Strange 'plasticrust' pollution found on Portuguese island

Plastic pollution is fast becoming a fixture of Earth's oceans, present everywhere from the deepest trenches to the guts of sea birds soaring over the waves. Now, a forthcoming study in the October 2019 issue of the journal Science of the Total Environment sh…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) Researchers say they may have identified a new kind of plastic pollution in the sea and theyre calling it plasticrust. Scientists working in Madeira, a volcanic Portuguese island off northwest Africa, have found small patches of what lo…