Humans are ingesting the equivalent of one credit card per week from water, food and the air they breathe. A new WWF study called 'Assessing Plastic Ingestion from Nature to People' reports that people consume 2,000 tiny pieces of plastic each week, on average, which is the equivalent of eating ...
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to outline plans to ban single-use plastics by 2021. Plastic straws, cotton swabs, drink stirrers, plates, cutlery and balloon sticks will be among items due to be banished in the country according to reports in CBC News. The full list of plastics to ...
Former Arsenal footballer Mathieu Flamini joined the protest aimed at protecting the ocean from plastic pollution and highlighting the climate crisis.
Once celebrated as "Heaven on Earth" by travel writers, now a monstrous 238 tonnes of plastic debris scatter the white sandy beaches of the Cocos Islands - including bottle caps, straws and flip-flops
Rob Arnold made his sculpture from the pieces of Nestle product containers he found on a beach in Cornwall
The shock findings of a new study raise questions whether 'biodegradable' materials can be relied on as a realistic solution to the plastic pollution problem
They pilot-tested the technique by researchers from the University of Birmingham at dozens of sites across the English Channel
Polyethylene makes up more than half the plastic (54.5%) found in the Mediterranean
Scientists have managed to convert them into the carbon chips found in the batteries of almost every device