Barry Rosenthal started collecting plastic garbage on a New York shoreline. His photographs reveal the variety of water-borne trash. Rosenthal chose oddly shaped plastic objects for this composition.

A photo of a scenic Florida beach strewn with beer cans, plastic water bottles, and other garbage angered and saddened ...

This story is part of Planet or Plastic?—our multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic waste crisis ... They listen for garbage trucks and find much of their food in trash.

Coca-Cola itself acknowledged in 2022 that reusable packaging was "among the most effective ways to reduce waste ... of the ...