Unfortunately, plastic is so durable that the EPA reports “every bit of plastic ever made still exists.” All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one ...

The plastic swirls in giant gyres in the open oceans, collecting in “garbage patches” (though concentrations are too low to resemble piles of trash). Most of the plastic is degraded into small ...

Research suggests that similar adaptations may be occurring in various bacterial communities worldwide, particularly in environments with high plastic pollution, such as ocean gyres and landfills.

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According to UNESCO, plastic waste makes up 80% of all marine pollution, with 8–10 million metric tons of plastic making its ...

Australia’s Federal Court has ordered Clorox to pay a penalty of AUD 8.25m after it described recycled plastic collected up to 50 kilometres from a shoreline as “ocean plastic”. The multinational ...

And the 5 Gyres Institute is kicking off its fourth annual Plastic-Free Parks TrashBlitz project to do just that. The community science initiative's mission is to track pollution trends in the U.S ...

For years, Jack Auty studied how inflammation in the human body drives diseases, ranging from stroke to sepsis to Alzheimer’s ...

Clorox ordered to pay $8.25m in penalties for misleading 'ocean plastic' claims about certain GLAD products The Federal Court has ordered Clorox Australia Pty Ltd (Clorox) to pay a total penalty ...