The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) says it saw an increase in plastic litter picked up by volunteers in 2024.

A total of 167 objects — made of plastic, glass, metal and paper — have been identified at the bottom. This includes plastic bags, a plastic sack, plastic food containers, plastic cups and ...

Plastic bags are a major contributor to pollution in Europe. They often end up as litter in the environment, where they take centuries to break down. Many of these bags are used only once before ...

Oregon lawmakers looking to stop plastic from piling up on the state’s beaches are turning their attention to other plastic ...

In late May, an Asahi Shimbun reporter saw white face masks washed ashore, along with littered plastic bottles and plastic bags, between breakwater blocks along a jetty in Osaka Prefecture ...

Much like recent EU legislation which required all plastic bottles to have caps attached by a tether, the removal of items that tend to be easily littered is a way to help people be more ...

Flimsy plastics are more likely to be littered Anything, however, is better than plastic. A somewhat misleading statistic that plastic straws account for a mere 0.025% of ocean plastics has been ...

The Oregon Senate advanced a bill Tuesday that would expand the state’s plastic bag ban to cover restaurant takeout bags and thicker plastic bags.

“We have huge trees in our layout, and unfortunately, we found all kinds of waste littered around them. We cleared the plastic and enriched the soil by adding compost. So far, we have cleaned ...

With strict reporting rules in place, the EU is monitoring the impact of these measures and considering further action to ...

The move towards paper straws was a refreshing direction in environmental preservation, in that it was initiated locally and by producers, not through legislation. Donald Trump recently surprised ...

Experimental prints and drawings from Joanna Rucklidge, in Drink it in, represent the juxtaposition of the indiscernible riverfly larvae with the littered plastic found on the riverbank ...