The rush to clean up the oceans by deep-sixing plastic straws is swelling as big corporate ... of the debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was fishing nets, ropes and lines, while ...

More than a dozen cities and California banned or limited plastic straws ... s oceans. A study last year found that 46 percent of the plastic waste in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — the ...

Efforts to clean plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and other parts of the world's oceans could use some ... use products like plastic bags and straws, and creating more of a refill ...

All of the plastic or microplastic gets pulled into gyres in the oceans where dense patches coined “garbage ... water bottles, straws, cups, utensils and other items that are only used one ...

a nonprofit called The Ocean Cleanup published a study in the journal Scientific Reports finding that surprisingly, the horrid patch doesn't appear to be comprised mainly of plastic straws and ...

in a social media post over the weekend. While plastic straws have been blamed for polluting oceans and harming marine life, Trump said Monday that he thinks "it's OK” to continue using them.

In the oceans, fishing nets ... estimated to be in the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch came from fishing nets. So why did plastic straws become such an emblem of the plastic pollution ...

The Ocean Cleanup estimates that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch occupies 1.6 million ... land in North America and Asia, like plastic bottles and straws that have found their way into the ocean.

Paper straws ... to coastal plastic pollution. The plastic pollution crisis is only getting larger and trillions of pieces of plastic are believed to float around the world’s oceans, including ...