A huge haul of about 2.6 tonnes of rubbish - most of it plastic - has been removed from the Galapagos Islands by volunteers. The coastal clean-up trip - supervised…
This is the horrifying ecological cost of the careless disposal of baby wipes and other trash flushed down the loo. An entire island made up of sediment, wet wipes and…
Retired US Marine Corps combat engineer shows off a new tool capable of separating microplastics from organic sea matter. The Trash Time Machine (TTM) is an open-source invention created by…
The incredible diversity in the deepest levels of the oceans is being threatened with extinction by micro-plastics, a new study has revealed. The shock findings emerged after scientists studied the…
An hours-old baby girl was saved from a stack of rubbish bags about to be collected by bin men after a passing cyclist thought she heard the faint cries of…
People are eating the equivalent of one credit card every week in their diet, a new study into the effects of plastic particles on human health has revealed. The particles…