It is also still unclear what happens to the foam after the plastic has been absorbed ... However, it is unlikely that oceans can be freed from microplastics in this way, as no one can boil ...

Fighting plastic pollution with global awareness Plastic in our oceans is a huge issue. Who can ignore the garbage patch that is twice the size of Texas, currently floating around in the Pacific ...

You see photos of plastic pollution in the ocean, but it can be hard to connect that to the plastic you're buying and using every day. Here are three ways the plastic you throw away can end up in the ...

More than 171 trillion pieces of plastic are now estimated to be floating in the world's oceans, according to scientists. Plastic kills fish and sea animals and takes hundreds of years to break ...

but unfortunately our used plastic is getting into the ocean. It can end up causing all sorts of problems for sea life and marine mammals. But how does our plastic waste end up littering the ocean?

It showed the garbage and plastics, they were all over the beaches and oceans,” said Chittoor ... Jared Polis to declare April as plastic and Styrofoam pollution month for all of Colorado ...

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Trying to solve the world's ocean plastic pollution problem has been a "long and painful journey" for Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat. The 28-year-old founder of non-profit environmental ...

Even before I knew the sinister plastic foam’s real name, it haunted me as a child ... “Microplastics and nanoplastics can accumulate in landscapes, oceans, ecosystems, animals and in us,” Hillmyer ...

Miami-Dade County Commissioners recently moved forward with a resolution to ban the use of plastic and Styrofoam at ...

Imagine: three decades from now, you are strolling along the beach, but the ocean is not blue ... we’ve observed a lot of plastic pollution in the water, including styrofoam, plastic bottles ...