Thousands of shipping containers are lost at sea each year, dispersing Lego, inkjet cartridges and rubber ducks across the world’s beaches.
Making environmentally friendly choices is complex: here’s a guide to help you at home or out shopping.
The impact of plastic on the ocean is heartbreaking but the science must be watertight to convince everyone that we need to change.
Art projects can help unlock more enthusiasm from citizens for deposit return schemes, reuse pilots or new recycling sorting rules.
It’s not just the ocean we need to worry about – plastic is accumulating in the world’s rivers, too.
In spite of monsoon season and cyclone Nivar, the most recent floods are largely man-made disasters.
Some plastic pollution lingers at the ocean’s surface for more than a century.
Evidence suggests that Scotland’s bottle deposit scheme would prevent huge amounts of litter from entering the environment.
We discovered that the 12 largest petrochemical companies announced 88 new projects between 2012 and 2019: new and expanded facilities that will likely operate for decades, ramping up carbon emissions.
As well as polluting our seas, plastics are warming the planet too. Urgent changes are needed to eliminate plastic’s contribution to climate breakdown.
