Plastic isn’t just pollution anymore: Scientists find marine life thriving and reproducing on plastic debris in Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Plastic waste in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is no longer just pollution; it's a home now. Scientists have found marine ...
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My art uses plastic recovered from beaches around the world to understand how our consumer society is transforming the ocean

Pam Longobardi amid a giant heap of fishing gear that she and volunteers from the Hawaii Wildlife Fund collected in 2008. David Rothstein, CC BY-ND I am obsessed with plastic objects. I harvest them ...
Futurism

Researchers Scoop “Mysterious” Plastic Objects Out of Great Pacific Garbage Patch

A crew on board a ship belonging to the nonprofit Ocean Voyages Institute made an unusual discovery while cleaning trash out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — the largest accumulation of ocean ...
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Rocks, insects, plastic: Why are ‘foreign objects’ common in food recalls?

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Rocks in Trader Joe’s cookies. Insects in ...