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The move follows the charity receiving letters and emails from hundreds of school children calling for a more environmentally-friendly red nose

The UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Seychelles is still host to 513 tonnes of plastic waste, made up largely of buoys, ropes, fishing nets and flipflops

Researchers from the University of Exeter and the University of Queensland studied five different kinds of seafood and found traces of plastic in every sample

Scientists say newly announced devices to skim rubbish from the top of the world’s seas won’t have any significant impact in cleaning up pollution

Microplastic and other man-made fibre particles were found in 67% of the creatures studied

Three separate studies have found high levels of microplastics are impacting the river, seriously affecting its inhabitants, habitats, water column and shoreline

That’s the conclusion reached in a new report from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and the University of Plymouth, which suggests tyres are a previously largely unrecorded source of microplastics in the marine environment

That’s the warning from Elda Miramontes. Junior Professor of Sedimentology at the University of Bremen

Public littering has been identified as the main source of plastic pollution in or near England’s Marine Protected Areas

The funding is part of the US Government’s Plastics Innovation Challenge aimed to accelerate innovations in plastics recycling technologies