Graph showing the predicted effects of different mitigation strategies on plastic pollution. The greatest results are from a combination of river barriers and ocean collection devices. Image ...

Most plastics that enter the ocean tend to get broken down by the ... The size of the plastics increase as you move right on the graph. Scientists aren't sure where the plastic is going or the ...

This graph shows that locations with more plastic ... recovering existing ocean plastic and shifting to biodegradable plastic types. While disappointing from an environmental remediation ...

The good news is that, according to recent research in the journal Nature Geoscience, we're dumping less plastic into the ocean than previously estimated. The bad news is that it's still a ...

The world’s oceans are polluted by a “plastic smog” made up of an estimated 171 trillion plastic particles that if gathered would weigh around 2.3 million tons, according to a new study.

When you think of plastic pollution, you might imagine ocean "garbage patches" swirling with tens of millions of plastic bottles and shopping bags. But unfolding alongside the "macroplastic ...

By mapping the flow and fate of plastic waste in the oceans, the team found that at a minimum there must be a 32% reduction in plastic littering by 2035 to prevent further marine damage.

Mr. Slat is the founder and chief executive of the Ocean Cleanup. The world is finally getting serious about plastic pollution. Next week, delegates from U.N. member states will gather in Paris to ...

Eriksen and Coffin did their quantification by gathering reams of previous data on plastic samples from across the world’s oceans. They combined this with data they collected during their own ...

Boyan Slat made waves when he was just a teenager with an audacious dream to rid the world’s oceans of plastic waste. Slat’s first TEDx Talk went viral in 2012, as the founder and CEO of The ...