Plastic has become a vital part of our lives of convenience. Yet the coffee cup lids, water bottles and bags we use once and throw away do end up somewhere -- in landfills, but also in the ocean.

If the Pilgrims had been like many people today and simply tossed their empty bottles and ... mostly in Asia. It’s then blown or washed into the sea. Imagine five plastic grocery bags stuffed ...

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 ... Adidas uses plastic bottles that contain ...

So where does the oceans' plastic waste come from? In the form of bottles ... 44 are in Asia, "due to population density and bad waste management", Laurent Lebreton, Ocean Cleanup's director ...

Richard Lord has been logging items washed up on Guernsey beaches since January 2018 A marine biologist has recorded more types of plastic bottle washed up on Guernsey's beaches than the total ...

Plastic bottles and empty beer cans roll on the sea floor in the waters around Phuket in southern ... Phuket, Thailand’s largest island which was voted one of the most beautiful islands in Asia by ...

Kia Corporation has developed the world's first car accessory made from plastic extracted from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The material was recovered ...

You see photos of plastic pollution in the ocean, but it can be hard to connect that to the plastic you're buying and using every day. Here are three ways the plastic you throw away can end up in the ...