(Natural News) A new study published in the journal Nature Sustainability found that plastic items used for packaging takeout food and drinks contributed nearly half of the plastics in the world’s oceans. Researchers arrived at this finding after examining 36 global inventories of marine trash from seven major aquatic environments. The researchers found that only 10 plastic products make up 75 […]

(Natural News) New York City is being forced to deploy an army of 10,000 cleanup workers in response to worsening problems with trash and rats. (Article by Paul Joseph Watson republished from NewsWars.com) A newly created ‘City Cleanup Corps’ will be tasked with fighting the piles of garbage on the streets of the Big Apple, with […]

(Natural News) It’s not everyday that police officers have to be called out in force to guard garbage, and yet that’s exactly what happened in Portland, Ore., last week.  Call it a sign of the crazy times in which we live. According to The Oregonian, about a dozen of Portland’s finest were called to confront […]

(Natural News) The removal of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now well underway, thanks to the efforts of Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit geared towards cleaning the world’s oceans. The cleanup, made possible by a large device designed by Ocean Cleanup founder and CEO Boyan Slat, successfully captured and held debris ranging from […]

(Natural News) Waves of garbage have washed up on the shores of a small Honduran town, affecting wildlife and the local economy that’s mostly dependent on the town’s pristine beaches to draw up tourists. Officials said enormous islands of trash appeared on the coast of Omoa in northern Honduras on Sept. 19. According to the Voice of […]

(Natural News) Chip bags, plastic drink pouches and similar plastic rubbish have become the most abundant trash found along beaches, outpacing cigarette butts as the top litter for the first time in more than three decades. This dismal development is among the findings of the Ocean Conservancy’s latest report on its annual beach cleanup. In […]

(Natural News) There could be more than 200 million tons of minuscule plastic fragments floating across and beneath the entire Atlantic Ocean, and that’s just for three of the most littered plastics. In a major breakthrough, scientists from the U.K.’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) found 12–21 million tons of polyethylene, polypropylene, and polystyrene suspended in the top 200 meters (m) of the Atlantic. […]

(Natural News) The fight against the ongoing Wuhan coronavirus pandemic seems to have had an unintended but worrying environmental consequence. Improperly disposed of personal protective equipment (PPE) is now finding its way into the world’s oceans. Nonprofit group Operation Mer Propre – French for “Operation Clean Sea” – is warning that there could now be “more […]

(Natural News) Plastics are everywhere – in food packaging, everyday items you use and even in personal hygiene products. But according to the shocking results of a study, there are also plastics inside your body. These findings, which were published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, showed that people ingest at least 50,000 microplastics annually. Despite the various […]

(Natural News) You won’t find any throwaway plastic bags at its grocery stores or plastic straws at its fast food chains. But California’s water supplies are loaded with disease-causing human feces thanks to the state’s leftist political establishment. While vocally claiming to be champions of the environment, California’s Democrat politicians have allowed out-of-control homelessness to […]