Its estimates suggest between 307 and 925 million items of floating litter travel along European rivers to the sea each year. Plastic made up about 80% of this, dominated by bits of plastic as ...

Other less significant sources of litter included fishing, shipping, sewage debris and fly-tipping, the report showed. Around the UK, English beaches had an average of 158 items of litter per 100 ...

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure — litter-ally. On Wednesday, Japan held the first garbage collection world championship called the SpoGomi World Cup, AFP reported. The name of ...

Plastic from take-out and convenience food is littering rivers and oceans - but straws are not the worst offenders, according to a new study. Scientists analysed global inventories cataloguing ...