Social Media Ideas for Ocean Plastics

The Ocean Plastics Environmental Crisis!

One commercial on TV states that by the year 2050 there will actually be more plastic in the ocean than fish! By 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish! That’s alar...

A New Report Reveals Plastic Bottles and Caps Are The Most Prevalent Pollutants Worldwide

The Ocean Conservancy today released results from the 2025 International Coastal Cleanup (ICC), revealing that volunteers collected 1,338,712 plastic bottles and 885,854 caps.

Column: Make plastic pollution a top priority

Every year, more than 462 million tons of plastic are produced worldwide, and roughly 90% contributes to plastic pollution. The harms of plastic consumption and pollution extend be...

A plastic eater in Bangkok’s canals

This solar-powered barge collects plastic from Bangkok’s canals before it can wash into the ocean. It’s an innovative solution to a growing problem, but cleaning up plastic is only...

Ocean Conservancy Celebrates Federal Court Upholding Oregon's Producer Responsibility for Plastics Law

A federal judge ruled that Oregon's Plastic Pollution and Recycling Modernization Act – an extended producer responsibility (EPR) law applied to packaging and plastics – is constit...

Microplastics Found 2,000 Meters Below Ocean’s Surface

Plastic pollution is prevalent even in the deep ocean, researchers have found.

Plastic Overshoot Day: Close to 72 million tonnes of plastic will leak into nature this year

More than 46,000 tonnes of microplastics and over 1,000 tonnes of chemical additives will find their way into the UK’s waterways this year, Earth Action warns

When Plastic Companies Write the Lesson Plans

September 01, 2026 | Source: Grist | by Joseph Winters This fall, 54 million K-12 students are headed back to the classroom for another year of lessons in all the classic subjects...

From rivers to mangroves, microplastics are contaminating the Amazon

MANAUS, Brazil — On June 20, a 50-member team led by NGO Asas de Socorro and Rede Reviva walked about 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) along the shoreline of the Puraquequara Lake in easter...

From beaches to plates: How Lagos plastic waste pollutes aquatic life, threatens humans

Lagos’ growing plastic waste problem is polluting aquatic life and threatening human health. Discover how discarded plastics journey from streets to sea. Read More: https://punchn...

Plastic found in Amazon fish as particles become trapped in river plants

Plastic pollution is alarmingly prevalent among fish in the Amazon, leading to serious complications in their gills and digestive systems. The surrounding aquatic vegetation along...

Abandoned Oil And Gas Pipes Are Still Contributing TONS of Microplastics Into The Ocean Each Year

The marine plastics problem runs deeper than we realized. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe...

Microplastics Pose A Huge Threat To Arctic Climate Feedback Loops

New research has found that microplastics have transitioned from a mere waste issue into active geophysical forces altering the Arctic climate.

‘Plastic pollution hotspots’ spawn a public health crisis across Latin America

Since China banned the import of plastic waste in 2018, plastic pollution has been having a growing impact on the people and ecosystems of Latin America. As the region imports an i...

Opinion | Plastics: From Innovation to Environmental Crisis

Plastic is what we refer to as synthetic or semisynthetic material composed primarily of complex polymers. Its defining characteristic is its flexible nature, which helps us use it...

Summer of action: Top 5 plastic pollution initiative highlights

Plastic pollution doesn’t take vacations — and luckily, neither does the Surfrider network; even as summer winds down, Surfrider activists have been hard at work redu...

Ocean Bottle highlights plastic pollution with Liberty London installation

The activation was created by scenographic design studio 1009.

Could Plastic-Eating Robots Clean Up Our Oceans?

This story has been co-published by Reasons to be Cheerful and the Outrider Foundation. In Los Angeles, in Mumbai, in Kuala Lumpur and in several other cities around the planet, au...

As microplastics pollute every corner of the Great Lakes, scientists push governments to combat threat

Deep within the boreal forest of western Ontario, scientists do the unthinkable: They dump pollution into remote, self-contained lakes to see what happens. Canadian researchers cur...

Microplastics—No Longer a Micro Concern for Consumer Products

Could tiny water droplets hold the key to dissolving the global plastic waste crisis?

International team of scientists develop catalyst-free plastic recycling process with just water and oxygen.

A4 Labels launches labels range made from ocean-bound plastic

UK-based A4 Labels has introduced a product line called Ocean Action Labels that uses ocean-bound plastic as a feedstock. The post A4 Labels launches labels range made from ocean-b...

The Microplastics Epidemic in Indonesia

Tiny fragments of plastic are in the air, land and water in the country, where the burning of trash is common.

The Plastics Treaty Process Needs Greatly Improved Observer Participation at this Critical Point in the Negotiations and...

GENEVA, August 24 (IPS) - In 2022, the United Nations Environment Assembly mandated an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to develop a global, legally binding instrumen...