You may have seen images of seabirds that have built their nests on discarded nets, lengths of rope and other plastic litter, ...

Plastic Beach, an Encinitas-based nonprofit, is tackling a major environmental challenge: soft plastic pollution.

Straws might seem insignificant, but the plastic straw has come to symbolize a global pollution crisis over the past decade.

The small plastic particles are "ubiquitous" in Great Lakes water, sediment, plants, fish and beaches, an international panel ...

Charleston Waterkeeper and others have found almost 30,000 plastic pellets littered on beaches and marshes, while a bill to ...

A startup in Mexico is trying to help get a handle on one Gulf coast city's plastic waste problem by converting it into ...

“And it’s not an easy thing to measure.” Some plastic pollution enters the environment in already tiny pieces, called nurdles, which are melted down by the billions to make products each yea ...

President Donald Trump says he is banning federal use of paper straws, saying they "don't work" and don't last very long. Instead he wants the government to exclusively move to ...

A British invention developed near to Rachel Reeves ’ constituency in Leeds could solve the world’s biggest cause of plastic ...

Sri Lankan Christians have joined hundreds of people in cleaning litter from beaches as part of a nationwide campaign aiming ...

At the head of beautiful Loch Long in Argyll sits one of Scotland's biggest plastic problems. A combination of prevailing ...

Ropes and fishing gear used in the fisheries and aquaculture industries are a major source of microplastics in the ocean and littering along the ...