"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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study of salt water's effects on plastic showed that the toxic material could be poisoning seabirds' stomachs. In a ...

Scientists discovered massive microplastics forming plastic clouds over Chinese cities, raising concerns about human health, atmospheric pollution and climate impacts, revealing plastics are now part ...

Microbubbles in the tap water you just poured into a plastic glass are strong enough to create tiny abrasions on the inner ...

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 ...

Vacuum forming is used to make plastic housing or components for a wide range of items, from food packaging and masks to helmets and parts for aeroplanes. Let's take a look at how it's done. Goggles, ...

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 ...