The ocean surface retains a stubborn trace of our plastic waste. Even if we were to stop all pollution today, these residues would persist for decades, or even more than a century. This ...

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a ...

a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column and they predict it could take over 100 years ...

Scientists found that even if all plastic dumping stopped today, floating plastics would take over 100 years to vanish.

Think of ocean plastic and you may picture bottles and bags bobbing on the waves, slowly drifting out to sea. Yet the reality ...

Contrary to common belief, most large ocean plastics degrade very slowly at the surface, with about 10 percent still afloat ...

Published today in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, the study is the third and ...

Only about 9% of plastic is recycled. Most of the rest goes to landfills or ends up in the environment. FutureBio wants to ...

The League of Women Voters, American Democracy Project and Chemistry Club at the State University of New York at Fredonia ...

"Our mission focuses on creating value from low-grade plastics and going beyond simple recycling," said Rukhsar Sultana, a project official, to The Business Standard. She also said the project aims to ...

Scientists predict it could take more than 100 years to remove plastic waste from the ocean's surface, according to new study ...