In 2013, volunteers with the Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup collected more than 12.3 million pounds of beach trash around the globe, including more than 940,000 plastic ...

Scientists are still investigating the potential dangers. Researchers make stunning discovery in deepest ocean trench on ...

A huge trash-collecting system designed to clean up plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean is finally picking up plastic, its inventor announced Wednesday.

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches.

Removing the plastic now helps to stop it from degrading and shedding additional microplastics into the ocean, which can enter the food chain and eventually end up in the human body.

Engineers set to sea Saturday to deploy a trash collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in an attempt to clean up the world’s largest garbage patch i… ...

A 2,000 foot-long floating pipe nicknamed Wilson is about to start its mission to collect all the plastic in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. CNN values your feedback 1.

Plastic bag policies led to a 25% to 47% reduction in the amount of disposable, thin plastic bag litter on America's ...

Engineers set to sea Saturday to deploy a trash collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in an attempt to clean up the world’s largest garbage patch in ...

A study published in Science Journal found that plastic bag policies, such as bans and fees, have been effective in reducing ...

Earlier this year, the 5 Gyres Institute, a California-based group that focuses on reducing plastic pollution, published a study that estimated similar amounts of plastic floating in the ocean.

Why Seabirds Love To Gobble Plastic Floating In The Ocean : The Two-Way New evidence suggests that for a lot of birds, plastic actually smells like food. The reason for that involves a common kind ...