This swirling mass of floating garbage was three times larger than France when it was discovered! So which nations dump the ...

Ocean Cleanup Foundation Modelled mass concentration of plastic in the area The use of aerial surveys as well as boats could partly explain why the new estimates are higher than in the past.

The ocean is continually ... 65–70% of their original mass. In a previous study using their dynamic seawater tank, the ...

Flesh-footed shearwaters, large, sooty brown seabirds that nest on islands off the coasts of Australia and New Zealand, eat more plastic as a proportion of their body mass than any other marine ...

Over a 36-week-long test, CDA foam placed in continuous flowing seawater tanks lost 65-70% of its original mass. Compared to another common plastic that can be found in every ocean in the world ...

Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean surfaces. At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the ...

Barry Rosenthal started collecting plastic garbage on a New York shoreline ... studio for months—sometimes years—until a critical mass of color emerges. These objects have little in common ...

A rising tide of plastic waste is choking our oceans, threatening fragile ecosystems and killing sea life. While plastic has revolutionised our way of life since it was invented in the 1950s, the ...

but unfortunately our used plastic is getting into the ocean. It can end up causing all sorts of problems for sea life and marine mammals. But how does our plastic waste end up littering the ocean?

After 36 weeks, the CDA foam lost 65-70% of its mass, and the degradation ... the shortest and longest lifespans in the ocean, and what types of plastic products, like straws and food wrappers ...