A voluntary group that clears up beach litter is pleading for people to use a bin after it faced a "horrendous" 18 months.

Glass bottles and a syringe are among the dangerous litter discovered by shocked volunteers carrying out a beach clean-up in Lincolnshire this week. The Sutton on Sea BeachCare litter-pickers said ...

Plastic litter dropped on the street doesn’t stay ... are often flushed down the toilet and find their way to the sea. However, these products don’t break down in water and should not be ...

Most litter with the Gulf Stream and by Arctic rivers enters the Barents Sea, which is the most highly productive sea in Russia’s waters. Plastic litter, fishing nets pollute beaches ...

A crisp packet nearly 20 years old was among almost seven tonnes of litter picked up during 2024 beach clean-ups. One ...

Kolkata: Hundreds of revellers, who converged on the Maidan to have a picnic on Christmas afternoon, were shocked to find the ...

The more efficient and viable the management of this litter is, the greater the incentive to use it and, consequently, the greater the interest in collecting it from the sea," said Peña.

“Not only is it disgusting to have to avoid litter when trying to have fun in the sea, it destroys the image of our beautiful beaches,” she said. She thinks the government should introduce ...

Plastic pollution is a growing problem in Japan, prompting cleanup efforts to recover plastic litter from water bodies. However, research on recovery rates from different river basins remains limited.