Plastic pollution is caused exclusively by humans. It poses growing global threats to both the ocean and society, and requires urgent action. Using psychological principles can motivate and implement change by connecting symptoms and sources. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your...
Concern over plastic pollution of the marine environment is severe. The mass-imbalance between the plastic litter supplied to and observed in the ocean currently suggests a missing sink. However, here we show that the ocean interior conceals high loads o
The Ocean Cleanup aims to tackle the 1,000 most polluting rivers, responsible for about 80 percent of ocean plastic pollution, before the end of 2025. Preventing the Flow Plastic Pollution in the Oceans The invention was unveiled to prevent the unrelenting flow of plastic pollution into the worl...
What we don’t know is how serious a threat this plastic is to wildlife and to people eating seafood. “We are still trying to understand how worried we should be,” says Choy. So it’s not clear how plastic pollution compares with the many other threats to ocean life, ...
Plastic pollution can have serious consequences for ocean life. Large pieces of the material may be mistaken for prey and eaten. Sea turtles and whales may mistake a billowing plastic bag for a squid, for example. The bag may block the animal's airway, causing suffocation, or block the stom...
The European Space Agency (ESA) is investigating how satellites can aid in detecting and mitigating plastic pollution in the ocean. Meet bag, bottle, and straw, three bits of plastic left on the beach. They are only small, but they are heading into the ocean, where they could cause big ...
Human activity presents the biggest threat to oceans as more than 80 percent of marine pollution comes from land-based activities and waste, specifically plastics. An estimated eight million tonnes of plastic reach our oceans every year, where a total of150 million tonnes of plastic wastehas alrea...
Plastic waste in the ocean is making its way back to land and increasing pollution on Australia’s beaches, according to new research from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. New research shows that plastic waste from our oceans is ending up back on land, where it becomes trapped in...
The focus on the life cycle assessment and the brief overview of the plastic waste management over the ocean surfaces with the various mathematical models has been studied. The impact of the ocean pollution is also being analysed.Previous article in issue Next article in issue...
The wastes created from plastics were accumulated uniformly in enigmatic marine environment. The marine pollution is the consequence of plastic wastes attributes to the semi-permanent stability of marine ecosystem which has obnoxious impact on marine animals. As suggested by researchers, for marine habita...