Correction — An earlier version of the headline misstated how much plastic pollution is dumped into the ocean. It is 2,000 truckloads each day. This story has been updated.

A group of scientists analyzing global data collected over the past four decades have found a "rapid increase" in ocean plastic pollution since 2005, according to a research article published in ...

Marine plastic pollution and nature conservation concept - penguin trapped in plastic net tsvibrav/Getty. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the world's largest environmental ...

It's time to get at the root of this ocean crisis.The Center has petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to begin regulating plastics as a pollutant and is working to stop plastic pollution at ...

Researchers evaluated data on ocean plastic and estimated the total number of pieces in the ocean is 170 trillion—and rising. Try to imagine the number 170,000,000,000,000—that’s 170 ...

A ship tows The Ocean Cleanup’s first buoyant trash-collecting device into the Pacific Ocean from the San Francisco Bay in 2018. (Lorin Eleni Gill / Associated Press) Sept. 12, 2024 3 AM PT ...

But if we don’t also stop more plastic from flowing into the oceans, we will never be able to get the job done. Global plastic use is projected to nearly triple by 2060 1,200 million metric tons ...

Cleaning up the Great Pacific garbage patch 01:38. The accumulated floating plastic known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 620,000 square miles — nearly twice the size of Texas. One group ...

A new study shows up to 90% of floating plastic rubbish is captured in estuaries and inner shorelines. Local community cleanups can make a real difference by stopping pollution at its source.

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