If you liked this story, share it with other people. Earth’s oceans are drowning in plastic. Humans created 311 million metric tons of the stuff in 2014, and it is expected that we’ll be making four ...
Environmental scientists calculate that about two percent of visibly floating plastic may disappears from the ocean surface by UV light from the sun each year. UV light from the sun slowly breaks down ...
A mysterious teal blue plastic bottle is nestled in the cattails and spatterdock plants of Dyke Marsh. The 28-ounce, blender-type bottle, with a Global Position System (GPS) tracking device inside, ...
Plastic is kind of like a Twitter reply guy: It never goes away. And there’s more coming in. Each year, 8 million metric tons of plastic go into the ocean (that's equal to about one garbage truck per ...