Our oceans have been experiencing a plastic crisis for decades. We have now reached a pivotal moment in ocean pollution, where the numbers are no longer abstract and time is running out to make an ...
Kate Spencer receives funding from NERC, Lloyd's Register Foundation and EU Interreg IV programme Preventing Plastic Pollution Nan Wu works for Queen Mary University of London and the British ...
Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines. Increasingly, researchers have been finding tiny microplastic fragments ...
Researchers tagged plastic bottles to track how litter travels from land to sea. Plastics make up most marine debris. An estimated 2 million tons of plastic waste enter the ocean every year, and river ...
People walking the streets of downtown Petaluma, California, started seeing something new on the sidewalks in summer. Alongside the usual trash cans and recycling containers were large purple bins ...
Six years ago, Julia Marsh gathered with friends in the kitchen of her small Brooklyn apartment. She’d ordered some flour-like powder derived from seaweed off the internet, and — after watching ...
Six years ago, Julia Marsh gathered with friends in the kitchen of her small Brooklyn apartment. She’d ordered some flour-like powder derived from seaweed off the internet, and — after watching ...