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Today, the Council and the European Parliament provisionally agreed on a regulation on preventing the loss of plastic pellets ...

Plastics are becoming more present in the seas and oceans around the world. The Mediterranean - a semi-enclosed marine basin ...

A new study finds microplastics in nearly every organ of stranded sea turtles, including their reproductive systems.

Supramolecular materials that fully degrade when soaked in saltwater have the potential to help address the microplastics pollution crisis.

Thousands of tonnes of plastic pollution could be escaping into the ... Most people have experienced discarded gum under bench seats, school desks and on street pavements. But, like other plastics ...

Small pellets of plastic are washing up on the east coast of England following the fiery collision of two ships in the North Sea last week ... crash has added to that pollution.

“We already have a huge problem with plastic pollution along the coast of the North Sea and our volunteers spend hours dealing with this laborious task,” Ms Smalley said. “We urge members of ...

Microplastics are a growing ecological and human health crisis: Scientist have found the tiny plastic particles everywhere ...

An operation to remove plastic pellets which have washed up on Norfolk beaches following a ship collision in the North Sea could take ... to clean up this plastic pollution from our beaches ...