Simulating a half century of movement and degradation of plastic waste in the ocean, a new study estimates that nearly two-thirds of ocean plastics are outside the reach of current monitoring methods.

The garbage floating on the surface is the tip of the plastic iceberg. The best-known of the oceans’ trash gyres is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a vast area of semi-submerged junk said to be ...

That is just the tip of the plastic iceberg that floats around the sea, unfortunately. Each year, 400 million tons of plastic is produced and 40% of it is single-use, meaning it is only used once ...

Genetically engineered bacteria can not only degrade plastic waste, but they can convert it into valuable industrial chemicals. There are still unknowns ... But some scientists disagree, viewing ...

Video frames showing the capsize of a plastic iceberg 2 inches wide, 4 inches high and 10.5 inches long (5.1 by 10.2 by 26.7 cm).

In this video, which has been slowed down by five times its real speed, a plastic iceberg undergoes capsizing while being digitally tracked through two black dots.

In summer 2019, a surprising sight popped up on a New Hampshire lake — ICEBERG, a floating, iceberg-shaped pavilion made of locally sourced wood and recycled plastic.

But some scientists disagree, viewing nurdles as the tip of a plastic iceberg threatening marine bio-life. Hardly any plastic – just 9% worldwide – ever enters a recycling plant. Plastic debris has ...