Think of ocean plastic and you may picture bottles and bags bobbing on the waves, slowly drifting out to sea. Yet the reality is more complex and far more persistent. Even if we stopped all plastic ...

Some 170 trillion pieces of plastic are floating on the planet’s oceans — and scientists revealed for the first time that it could take more than century for them sink or disappear, even if we stopped ...

Most people know plastic pollution is bad news. But a group of scientists says that we should pause all ocean plastic cleanup ...

Cleanup crews have already pulled over 110 million pounds of plastic from the ocean—but it barely made a dent. Every minute, another 7,000 pounds pours in, faster than anyone can remove it. What ...

After 20 years of sailing the world’s oceans to research the global scale of plastic pollution, it’s the ocean nanoplastics ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. In “The Graduate,” Benjamin Braddock, back from school, is told the secret of the future in one word. “Plastics.” At the time the ...

An estimated 171 trillion pieces of plastic are lurking in the world’s oceans, and plastic production is expected to triple by 2060 if no changes are made. This growth could result in a significant ...

A blackened chunk of expanded plastic foam lies on a beach atop of a large mass of brown seaweed. A person in a raincoat walks in the distance, picking up trash as they go along. In 2020, plastic ...

Plastics tend to break down into microplastics rather than biodegrade (though there are biodegradable plastics as well). Another issue is the amount of plastic entering the oceans: approximately 11 ...

The designs are eye-catching and beautiful, inspired by South Florida‘s beaches and ocean water. As co-founder of Jason Hyde ...