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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

The solar-powered Interceptor 001 has been deployed at the Cengkareng drain in Jakarta on a trial run since May 2019.

A new report more than a third of the total can’t differentiate between the energy consumption of plastic and paper

Peel Environmental and Waste2Tricity say the £7m development near Ellesmere Port will reduce landfill waste and reduce reliance on fossil fuels