State and local policies to regulate the use of plastic bags have significantly reduced how many of them are found littered along U.S. shorelines — potentially cutting that type of waste in half in ...

It turns out eliminating the “paper or plastic” question through plastic bag regulation is effectively reducing the number of bags found in shoreline litter across the United States. A new analysis of ...

Plastic has been found in every single part of the ocean, from the surface to the seafloor and from the tropics to the poles. Land-based sources of plastic account for the majority of this pollution, ...

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CLEVELAND — A science lesson turned into a call to action. After learning about the environmental impact of litter, the students decided they had to do something. One of their efforts? Writing a ...

Ireland's 3,172 kilometres of coastline faces a crisis with plastic pollution so could a detection platform using drone imagery provide a solution?