(Getty) While photos of littered beaches and floating garbage patches are unsettling ... But experts say a combination of individual actions and policies can clean up our air and water, reducing risks ...

The accumulation of micro- and nano-plastics in marine organisms, particularly fish, eventually makes its way onto our plates ...

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She also noticed an air of indifference ... Among the five trillion bits of plastic floating around the ocean are weird curlicues like these—shavings from various fabrication or drilling ...

These oil giants are rapidly building petrochemical plants across the United States to turn fracked gas into plastic. This means more toxic air pollution and plastic in our oceans. We need urgent ...