North America is the source of just 0.9 per cent of the world’s “mismanaged” plastic, meaning plastic that could wind up in the ocean. Almost all our junk ends up in landfills (or incinerators).

Nanoplastics entered the Atlantic via rivers, sunlight-driven plastic breakdown, and even through the air with rain or dust.

WATCH: With plastic pollution in our oceans reaching epidemic proportions, a Canadian entrepreneur is working on a solution that could fuel a cleaner future. Mike Drolet explains – Sep 27, 2019 ...

Plastic Ocean Project launched its “Sustainable Summer” initiative to help people reduce their plastic footprint.

Keeping oceans clean In Schieir’s view, the next step in addressing ocean plastic writ large is to raise the public’s understanding of the issue. He believes that from there, the demand for products ...

When it comes to plastics polluting our water, it’s not just the world’s oceans that should keep us concerned. Chelsea Rochman, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the ...

From plastic pollution to floating debris, our oceans face an unprecedented crisis—but new trash‑eating robots are making ...

A Global Tragedy for Our Oceans and Sea Life Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that ...

But he says the big overarching issue here is that all this plastic waste in our oceans is having an impact on our planet. Over the last 10 years, we have produced more plastic than all of the 20 ...

Oceans are not the only natural systems threatened by the intrusion of plastic packaging, bags, bottles, cigarette lighters and other refuse, but they may merit the most attention. A 2015 study by ...

In the oceans, the most widespread type of plastic pollution may be the kind you can’t see. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature estimates that the North Atlantic Ocean alone ...

There is a lot of plastic in our oceans. To understand how much, consider: eight million tonnes of it ends up in the oceans each year — the equivalent of a dump truck of plastic garbage every ...