Ocean conservation is critical for the preservation of our planet’s natural resources. With over 70% of the Earth’s surface covered in water, the ocean plays a...
By Tanya Cox, Senior Technical Specialist, Marine Plastics, Fauna & Flora In January 2023, plastic pellets – or ‘nurdles’ – hit the headlines as the French...
Contributed By Zoie Diana DURHAM, N.C. – Earth is awash in plastic. It litters our landscapes and waterways, overflows landfills, and increasingly threatens human and environmental...
By The University of Oxford As nations meet in Uruguay to negotiate a new Global Plastics Treaty, marine and forensic scientists publish new results this week...
Contributed by Trashblitz PLASTIC ITEMS MAKE UP 81 PERCENT OF WASTE FOUND ACROSS U.S. NATIONAL PARKSResults from Community Research Project Underscore Urgent Need to Address Single-Use Plastic...
BUSAN, REPUBLIC OF KOREA – A delegation of ocean plastic pollution experts from NGO Ocean Conservancy will be leading or presenting at more than 15 events...
All Photo Credit Ed Marshall – Plastic nurdles, Norfolk, January 2019. A new report by international wildlife conservation charity, Fauna & Flora International (FFI), highlights the disastrous...
New plastic neutrality project presents Maldivian fishers as a remarkable solution to ocean pollution. The net retrieval and turtle release project which saw the International Pole and...
Rice University lab turns hard-to-process trash into carbon-capture master HOUSTON – Here’s another thing to do with that mountain of used plastic: make it soak up...
A survey of plastic pollution on Australia’s Cocos (Keeling) Islands has revealed the territory’s beaches are littered with an estimated 414 million pieces of plastic debris....