Litter dropped on the street doesn’t stay there. Rainwater and wind carries plastic waste into streams and rivers, and through drains. Drains lead to the ocean! Careless and improper waste disposal is ...

our multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic waste crisis. Learn what you can do to reduce your own single-use plastics. Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of ...

Banning plastic straws is just a distraction from the more pressing issue of waste. Last July, Seattle became the first US city to ban plastic straws. Since then, the #stopsucking cause has taken ...

But how does our plastic waste end up littering the ocean? Even if you live hundreds of miles away from the sea, the plastic you use can still make its way into the ocean. As much as 80% of the ...

In the form of bottles, tyres, packaging and piping, millions of tonnes of plastic waste are dumped every year in the world's ...

there will be more plastic in our oceans than fish. And one study estimates that 90% of seabirds have consumed some form of plastic waste. All that pollution on beaches and in the ocean is harmful ...

ReSea, a sea clean-up project backed by a Danish packaging company, has taken Indonesia-based RIO Ocean Integrity to court for defamation. RIO claims ReSea-branded bags of plastic waste meant for ...

Much of the plastic that does not end up in landfill or go through other waste management pathways (such as recycling or incineration) is thought to end up in the ocean. Between 4.8 and 12.7 million ...

More from World Wide Waste A triangle pointing right which indicates this type of media can be played. The Ocean Cleanup started removing plastic from the ocean a decade ago. But most of that ...

there will be more plastic in our oceans than fish. And one study estimates that 90% of seabirds have consumed some form of plastic waste. All that pollution on beaches and in the ocean is harmful ...

In a world that’s literally awash in plastic waste, it seems a pity to have ... with parts that aren’t easy to come by, like the compression screws that power plastics extruders.