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.

Discarded clothing, for example, may be tracked as HS 5505 and not counted as plastic waste, even though 60 to 70 percent of all textiles are made of some kind of plastic. And another category ...

6.30am: Radio 1. The Chris Moyles Show comes live from a specially constructed iceberg in the penguin enclosure at Chessington World of Adventures. This tribute to those who went down on the ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump, who is selling plastic straws emblazoned with his name as part of his reelection merchandise, sees the items as just the tip of the plastic iceberg. “I do think we have ...

Plastic bag bans are just the tip of the public policy iceberg The state's plastic bag ban began in 2020 but had included an exception for thicker plastic bags because they were marketed as reusable.

That’s just the tip of the plastic iceberg. Plastic has been discovered in human brains , where there’s been a 50% increase in the last eight years. Plastic has been found in our heart tissue .

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 ...