"I love the water. I love swimming," Sophia Perez says. But "in some places sea creatures can't live in their natural habitats because it's been taken over by waste and plastic." (Zoe Cranfill / Los ...

Plastic has become part of everyday life, but its benefits come with a serious cost. Cheap, durable plastics accumulate in ...

After returning from the Transpacific Yacht Race -- an annual sailboat race from Los Angeles to Honolulu -- in 1997, Capt. Charles Moore was guiding his boat through the doldrums when he noticed some ...

If you go to the beach, you’re likely to see some form of plastic pollution scattered in the waves or sprinkled among the sand grains. A bottle cap fragment here, a transparent piece of packaging ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Priya covers the ocean, climate change, and the future of our planet. The authors first noticed the "plasticrusts" in 2016 and ...

The plastics industry creates 1.8 trillion pounds of carbon emissions every year, but now one company has figured out a way to take the pollution and turn it into plastic you can hold in your hand.

Some of you may be thinking that plastic is convenient to use, but is it convenient to kill the planet? As time passes, more and more plastic is being thrown into landfills, burned and thrown into the ...