The idea of dropping a message in a bottle and having it end up on some distant beach seems largely like a myth. But we know that the plastic we put in the ocean does float far from where we dropped ...

When you think of plastic pollution in the ocean, you might picture bottles and bags floating on the surface of the sea, a “seventh continent” made up entirely of plastic waste, or all of that ...

A floating trash barrier installed by Kabadiwalla Connect in Chennai’s Buckingham Canal aims to stop plastic waste before it reaches the Bay of Bengal. The pilot links informal waste labour in India ...