Through a partnership with Plastic Bank, the Method brand of cleaning products is now using recycled "coastal plastic" for clear bottles in North America. Method, owned by SC Johnson & Son Inc ...

melted plastic that has melded with rocks, coral and other naturally occurring material in coastal areas. Samples of these “Frankenrocks” collected from a single beach on a single island in ...

Among the plastic debris, the researchers found all kinds of nonnative species, from anemones to worms to little crustaceans. "To find that many coastal species on a relatively small sample size ...

To test the BPDI’s accuracy, researchers conducted an experiment at Shallow Inlet, a sandy coastal area in Victoria, Australia. They placed various plastic targets, including common beach debris ...

Scientists have found thriving communities of coastal creatures, including tiny crabs and anemones, living thousands of miles from their original home on plastic debris in the Great Pacific ...

New research by Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, shows Australian coastal plastic pollution has decreased by 29 percent, the surprise discovery revealed as part of a broader project ...

Coastal podded hydroid Aglaophenia pluma and open-ocean gooseneck barnacles Lepas were living on plastic collected in the North Pacific Gyre. It means the debris washing up along mostly windward ...

The researchers, whose work will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin, are hopeful coastal cleanup organizations can use this new tool to expedite plastic ...

Researchers found coastal species, representing diverse taxonomic groups and life history traits, in the eastern North Pacific Subtropical Gyre on over 70 percent of the plastic debris they examined.