The remaining fifth comes from 30,000 other rivers. Out of the 50 main rivers carrying plastic to the oceans, including small ...

So where does the plastic go? The problem with plastic in the seas arose not so long ago - from the middle of the 19th century when the world industry began to massively use petrochemicals to ...

Straws might seem insignificant, but the plastic straw has come to symbolize a global pollution crisis over the past decade.

They found that the concentrations of particles in kidney and liver samples were comparable, with an average of 433 ...