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Nearly all of Alderney’s 8,000 gannet nests are contaminated with plastic pollution, island conservationists say.

As recently as 20 years ago, only small quantities were seen in the nests, the Wildlife Trust […][Read More…]

Look again and it’s just a mesh of plastic bottles and netting. What’s going on here?

In May, the Forum produced a video on Guatemala’s ‘biofences’ — plastic bottles meshed together to form barriers across ri […][Read More…]

AKARTA: Indonesia’s holiday island Bali has enacted a ban on single-use plastics such as shopping bags, styrofoam and straws in efforts to curb pollution in its waters, according to a report by the Jakarta Post on […][Read More…]

As Popular Science has reported before, plastic is a big problem: microplastics have shown up in our poop and in Arctic sea ice; as plastics degrade they spill out greenhouse gases; and of course, they hang around […][Read More…]

Retailers and producers of packaging will be forced to pay the full cost of collecting and recycling it under the government’s new waste strategy.

Supermarkets and other retailers could be charged penalties f […][Read More…]

A French man’s attempt to swim across the Pacific Ocean may be over for now, but his campaign to warn the world about the dangers of plastic pollution in the ocean continues.

Benoît “Ben” Lecomte stepped on a […][Read More…]

Plastic was found in the gut of every single sea turtle examined in a new study, casting fresh light on the scale of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans.

The research, published in the journal Global Change […][Read More…]

The MCS Great British Beach Clean, run in partnership with Waitrose & Partners, was the biggest mass participation beach clean and survey event the UK has ever witnessed. The event, held over four days in […][Read More…]

New 3-D modeling technology has the power to scan coastlines for garbage much faster than humans can.
One strike against the human species is that we’ve filled the Earth’s oceans and beaches with garbage. A poi […][Read More…]

ach year, countries around the world join together for one day in September to clean up their beaches, rivers, and shorelines. The cleanup effort is organized by Ocean Conservancy. The organization works to create […][Read More…]

The activity that had the support of P & G volunteers, in addition to other companies, managed to collect in Costa del Este a significant amount of garbage and allowed the transnational, which has its Regional […][Read More…]