Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a ...

Floating ocean plastics can take more than 100 years to disappear, breaking into tiny fragments that slowly sink to the seafloor.

Think of ocean plastic and you may picture bottles and bags bobbing on the waves, slowly drifting out to sea. Yet the reality ...

a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column and they predict it could take over 100 years ...

Scientists found that even if all plastic dumping stopped today, floating plastics would take over 100 years to vanish.

"The real solution lies in pushing for better regulations." New research reveals dangerous threat lurking in everyday ...

Published today in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, the study is the third and ...

The League of Women Voters, American Democracy Project and Chemistry Club at the State University of New York at Fredonia ...

Seven states have adopted Extended Producer Responsibility laws to make companies pay for their plastic. One industry leader says it's time for federal action.

Enacting a combination of four policies could reduce mismanaged plastic waste by 91% and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by about 37% third by 2050, according to a model created by scientists at the ...

The Lancet: Plastic pollution is an underrecognised threat to health, experts warn as they launch a project to track plastics’ health impacts and monitor progress Ahead of the expected finalisation of ...

Scientists predict it could take more than 100 years to remove plastic waste from the ocean's surface, according to new study ...