Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis ... Act and will keep pushing for plastic pollution to be treated as the hazardous waste that it is. We’ve sued ...

This story is part of Planet or Plastic?—our multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic waste ... Ocean Conservancy has run beach cleanups for 30 years. Of the top 10 types ...

An estimated 8 million tons of plastic enter the ocean every year ... complexity of recycling different types of plastics. As a result, the majority of plastic waste ends up in landfills ...

our multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic waste crisis. Learn what you can do to reduce your own single-use plastics. Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of ...

CHILD: I found this plastic container. NAOMI: That's a lot of plastic on the beach! We use plastic in many different ... plastic waste and the problem it is causing the oceans.

Waste generated by human activities has now reached the deepest point in the Mediterranean: the 5,112-meter-deep Calypso Deep in the Ionian Sea. A total of 167 objects—mainly plastics, glass, metal ...

Litter dropped on the street doesn’t stay there. Rainwater and wind carries plastic waste into streams and rivers, and through drains. Drains lead to the ocean! Careless and improper waste disposal is ...

We’re talking about microplastics – those tiny fragments that are quietly infiltrating every corner of our oceans. We’ve dumped billions of tons of plastic waste into our environment ...

So Adidas is turning to a different ... there will be more plastic in our oceans than fish. And one study estimates that 90% of seabirds have consumed some form of plastic waste.