ocean pollution

Scientists Discover Styrofoam-Eating Worms That Consume Plastic 

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Numerous synthetic materials, particularly plastics, pose a significant environmental challenge due to their non-biodegradable nature. Unlike organic substances such as fruit peels, plastics do not naturally break down and assimilate into the ecosystem.  Consequently, discarded plastic items accumulate in landfills, occupying valuable natural space and persisting without decomposition. In the global pursuit of waste reduction, … Read more

Tragically, Plastic Waste Smells Like Dinner to Hungry Sea Turtles

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It has long been said that sea turtles eat plastic bags because they look like jellyfish. Matthew Savoca, a doctoral student in Ecology at the University of California Davis, wasn’t content to accept this as the only reason. Surely there was more to it. He devoted his dissertation research to understanding why marine animals confused … Read more

China is Trashing the Ocean But We’ve All Helped

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There are 10 rivers in the world that carry 93% of trash into the world’s oceans. “The Yangtze, Yellow, Hai, Pearl, Amur, Mekong, Indus and Ganges Delta in Asia, and the Niger and Nile in Africa. The Yangtze alone dumps up to an estimated 1.5 million metric tons of plastic waste into the Yellow Sea.” … Read more

Can You Guess Who Is The World’s Top Corporate Plastic Polluter?

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Break Free From Plastic (BFFP) is a global movement working to stop plastic pollution. They are adding teeth to the concept of volunteer cleanups by transforming cleanup participants into citizen scientists to produce audits of the plastics collected during cleanups to identify the brands behind the discarded plastics. In September 2019, BFFP mobilized over 72,000 … Read more