"It's not just a visual thing - they're being attracted from probably long distances away to these garbage patches out in the open ocean." The danger of items like straws and plastic bags to sea ...

so it remains strong when used for fishing but decomposes quickly when it becomes garbage in the sea. This could help reduce the amount of plastic waste in the ocean, lessening the incidence of ...

It is a danger to sea life, and mankind. Marine life can be trapped in plastic garbage, especially discarded "ghost" fishing nets that continue to capture and kill dolphins, porpoises and whales.

"There's about 1,000 rivers we need to tackle and five ocean garbage ... plastic contributing to global ocean plastic pollution. "The rivers are really the arteries that carry trash from land to ...

A newly published study has identified a fungus living in the sea ... plastic. The marine microbe, called Parengyodontium ...