The board’s 25-inch skatedeck is made out of recycled plastic fishing nets. What makes Bureo different from most companies is that it’s just as focused on its recycling mission as it is on selling its ...

About nine million tons of visible plastic trash enter oceans each year—then there’s the waste we can’t see. This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.

Forty-six percent of the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is fishing nets, like the ones from which these two turtles were caught. You can also be a turtle hero by using less plastic.

Europe’s plastics industry provides special debris-collecting trawl nets (which cost from $23,000 ... When fishermen are trawling for plastic debris, they aren’t depleting already dwindling fish ...

The turtle stuck in a six-pack ring, its shell warped from years of straining against the tough plastic. The seal snared in a discarded fishing net. But most of the time, the harm is stealthier.

Equivalent to the weight of three Statues of Liberty. Half of the entire patch is made of plastic fishing nets, lines, and ropes, which come from intense fishing activity near the area.

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 ...