Plastic

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11 tonnes of litter removed from British beaches

UK shoppers buy a whopping 54 of these 'bags for life' a year on average. © Martin Poole/Getty

‘Bags for life’ exacerbating the plastic problem

Manta feeding in trash Indo - Copyright Andrea Marshall, Marine Megafauna Foundation

Ocean giants consuming microplastics when feeding

Detail of hands showing microplastics on the beach

People & Wildlife

Everything you need to know about microplastics

Plastic straws. © Kyryl Gorlov

Ban on some single-use plastics in England

BBC Wildlife goes plastic-free with help from Ecotricity

Jellyfish and litter. © Blacklenz/Getty

Rise of ocean plastic revealed via 60 years of data

Tower Bridge, City Hall and the Shard. © Shomos Uddin/Getty

Majority of litter in the River Thames is single-use

© Surfers Against Sewage

36,000kg of plastic waste picked by volunteers