Plastic has become a vital part of our lives of convenience. Yet the coffee cup lids, water bottles and bags we use once and throw away do end up somewhere -- in landfills, but also in the ocean.

Just think, if the Jamestown colonists had used plastic bottles, they might still be floating in the ocean today! Plastic ...

Its plastic is traceable and certified as "ocean-bound" -- a process that involves ... Mimi, 65, has brought out several old rice sacks of bottles that join a growing heap of torn fishing nets ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to reverse a federal push away from plastic straws, declaring that paper ...

Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean surfaces. At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the ...

The amount of plastic in the ocean is expected to double in the next 15 years ... take action by saying no to unnecessary packaging and single-use plastic such as bottles, cups and straws, and help ...