Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

To ascertain the quantity of plastic in Earth's oceans, the researchers analyzed a wealth of data, such as "different marine reservoirs, including coastlines, the ocean surface and the deep ocean ...

Plastic pollution at sea is reaching worrying levels and will continue to grow even if significant action is taken now to stop such waste from reaching the world’s oceans.

The Latest. There’s less plastic pollution flowing into the ocean from land than scientists previously thought, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience.. The ...

And the accumulation of ocean plastic is only anticipated to get worse. Researchers expect that plastic waste is going to "exponentially increase," and by 2050, there will be 25,000 million metric ...

Without urgent policy intervention to limit plastic production, they said, the rate at which plastic waste will enter the ocean between now and 2040 will increase by around 2.6 times.

The Ocean Cleanup aims to be a temporary effort, with the ambition to reduce floating ocean plastic pollution by 90% by 2040. We will cease to exist once our mission of clean oceans has been achieved.

Ocean floor a 'reservoir' of plastic pollution Date: April 4, 2024 Source: CSIRO Australia Summary: New science has taken a deep dive into plastic waste, providing the first estimate of how much ...