Plastic Pollution

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…

Researchers say they may have identified a new kind of plastic pollution in the sea and they're calling it "plasticrust." Scientists working in Madeira, a volcanic Portuguese island off northwest Africa, have found small patches of what looks like melted pla…

In case the regular kind of plastic pollution seen on land and in the sea is not concerning enough, a new form of pollution has founds its way to rocks. Researchers have discovered a strange, never-before-seen type of pollution they are calling “plasticrust,…

After a stint on the sidelines, The Ocean Cleanup Project is bouncing back into action following a few upgrades to its trash-catching system. The team was forced to haul in its huge floating barriers for repairs earlier in the year, and now after making a few…

Image copyrightLaura TrueloveImage caption Alan Cookson, second from right, estimates he has helped clear 5,000kg of plastic off Wales' beaches An environmentalist who dedicated himself to cleaning beaches is hanging up his litter picker because of a "losi…

If you go to the beach, youre likely to see some form of plastic pollution scattered in the waves or sprinkled among the sand grains. A bottle cap fragment here, a transparent piece of packaging there. But researchers have identified a new, and perhaps more p…

The plastic debris floating in the world’s oceans entangles wildlife, kills birds that swallow it mistaking it for food, and seeps into the food chain, showing up in fish that humans eat. A major threat to the ocean, this plastic pollution is estimated to cau…

Greenpeace on Wednesday raised the alarm over microplastics in rivers after finding the pollutant in all the rivers it tested in Britain, calling it a "problem of enormous complexity". "We ignore this problem at our peril," warned David Santillo, senior scie…