How Single Use Plastics Are Hurting Our Oceans and Warming Our Planet. November 1, 2023. Plastic is everywhere. It is in the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe.

According to the report, 14 million tons of plastic enter the world’s oceans annually, and by 2050, in terms of weight, there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean. On the seafloor, the report ...

Scott, a commercial diver and part-time conservationist based in Ladysmith, a small town on the east coast of Vancouver ...

2. The Toxins in Plastic Poison Our Oceans. In addition to large plastic waste, the oceans contain trillions of microplastic* particles.We can now find microplastics in open oceans, freshwater sources ...

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 ...

The new study also identifies the major sources of plastic debris and names the top 20 countries generating the greatest amount of ocean-bound trash. China is first. The United States is 20th.

Roughly 170 trillion pieces of plastic are in our oceans, a new major study concludes, and most of them are too small to see with the naked eye. Researchers say in the past 18 years, the amount of ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an enormous agglomeration of plastic waste floating in the world's largest ocean, but it's not the only one.

An ongoing campaign in Dar es Salaam, led by the Forum on Climate Change (FORUMCC) in collaboration with various ...

Plastics entering the world's oceans have surged by an unprecedented amount since 2005 and could nearly triple by 2040 if no further action is taken, according to research published on Wednesday.

An oft-touted claim from high-profile sources says that there will be more plastic than fish in the world's oceans by 2050. The claim came from a 2016 report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.