A CSIRO study has found 39% less plastic pollution in and around Australian coastal cities over ten years. It also found more ...

Cleaning plastic from beaches after sea collision could take weeks, says council - An operation is under way in west Norfolk to remove nurdles released from a container ship which collided with a ...

Plastic pollution littering Australian coastlines has dropped by more than a third over the last decade, according to ...

The new study by the CSIRO found polystyrene and cigarette butts are some of the most commonly found items in the environment ...

The Marine Conservation Society said more than 15,000 volunteers picked up three quarters of a million pieces of litter ...

Wildlife organisations have said it is a race against time to clear plastic pellets thought to have come from a collision involving two ships from beaches. The pellets are thought to have entered UK ...

The Cornwall-based Surfers Against Sewage campaign group continues to call for a total ban on single-use plastic - including ...

Most chewing gum on sale is made from a variety of oil-based synthetic rubbers—similar to the plastic material used in car ...

Conservationists picked up hundreds of thousands of pieces of rubbish from British beaches last year, according to a charity.

"The size of the faucet highlights the magnitude of the problem. It makes the problem impossible to ignore. We're used to ...

Despite dying during last year’s legislative session, two bills in the Florida House and Senate are once again trying to ...

From microplastics washing up on once-pristine beaches to discarded fishing gear entangling marine animals, the impact on ...