Deadliest plastics: bags and packaging biggest marine life killers, study finds Wide-ranging review finds whales, dolphins, turtles and seabirds at mortal risk from marine debris Review Abstract Pollution by plastic and other debris is a problem affecting the world’s oceans and is increasing through time. The problem is so large that prioritizing solutions to effect […]
Anglian water ‘A new study is warning that up to a quarter of wet wipes sold in the UK could end up in the sewer network – and that wipes containing plastic fibres make up 80% of items being wrongly flushed. Anglian Water has conducted a study of plastics being wrongly flushed into one of […]
The sheer scales in the growth of plastic usage is staggering. See this figure from CIEL, but simply Google Plastics growth images to get any number of graphs. We can see the polluting effects of plastics well enough now on every environment and innumerable species. Lots of this plastic is also going to get incinerated […]
WWF ‘So-called “ghost gear”, fishing equipment which is lost in the sea, can continue killing marine life for decades or even centuries after it first enters the ocean, making it the most deadly form of marine plastic debris. WWF is calling on governments to develop a legally binding global plastic pollution treaty that addresses this […]
When the MCS Beachwatch programme began in 1993-1994 plastic cotton bud sticks were one of the regularly recorded items. They were one of the key indicators of sewage related pollution of our beaches and rivers. It has taken 25 years to get a simple substitution of card for plastic. Can we really afford to take […]
Science Plastic pollution is a pervasive and growing problem. To estimate the effectiveness of interventions to reduce plastic pollution, we modeled stocks and flows of municipal solid waste and four sources of microplastics through the global plastic system for five scenarios between 2016 and 2040. Implementing all feasible interventions reduced plastic pollution by 40% from […]
A study undertaken by the University of Plymouth to test the effectiveness of a number of prototype washing machine filters on their ability to reduce the volume of microfiber plastics reaching our oceans, features today in The Times, METRO, Daily Mirror and Engineering & Technology. The study tested six different products, all designed to filter out microfibers that […]
This review has been prepared for the Defra Marine Litter Policy Team to provide a summary of evidence of relevance in addressing marine plastic pollution, to identify evidence gaps and make recommendations for further work to support policy development. This review has been prepared for the Defra Marine Litter Policy team in order to provide […]