One of the most damaging types of marine plastic pollution is abandoned ... Marine debris impacts 66% of marine mammals, 50% of seabirds and all species of sea turtles – and across all species groups, ...

Human activities are threatening the health of the world's oceans. More than 80 percent of marine pollution comes from land-based activities. From coral bleaching to sea level rise, entire marine ...

This gear is mostly made from non-degradable types of plastics ... without causing pollution. "Fishing gear remains in situ for a long time and in practice turns the ocean into a plastic landfill ...

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050. Plastics pollution has a direct and deadly effect on wildlife. Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other ...