SANTA BARBARA, Calif (June 20, 2024) – Plastic is everywhere – more than 10 million metric tons of plastics enter the ocean each year, and the United States is ...

Ingenuity from UK and US universities has led to the development of next-generation solutions to eliminating plastic waste — particularly, in tricky marine environments. University of Edinburgh ...

Communities across San Diego and Imperial counties are picking up plastic that would otherwise end up in the ocean, turning a ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The ocean, vast and seemingly infinite, has been humanity's dumping ...

Thirty years ago, while counting barnacles, limpets, and seaweeds along rocky shores, I started noticing a daily tide of litter, mostly plastic. As a marine biology PhD student at Liverpool University ...

Within 15 years, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every minute. Every second. Plastic is everywhere in modern life and has essential, lifesaving ...

Negotiators from dozens of countries are in Busan, South Korea, trying to hammer out a global treaty to cut down on plastic pollution. It's their last chance before an end-of-year deadline to agree on ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (June 20, 2025) – The Community Environmental Council (CEC) and Santa Barbara Channelkeeper are hosting ...

This summer, the Community Environmental Council (CEC) and its partners are hosting several events focused on building awareness about the impacts of plastic pollution and what steps can be taken to ...

A plastic bottle and the remains of a child's spade on the beach in Prestatyn, U.K.. (Christopher Furlong | Getty Images) Negotiators from dozens of countries are in Busan, South Korea, trying to ...