#Marine Debris

Dr Lucy looking at Polly (who is a plastic toy) through a magnifying glass

This plastic problem is getting personal

Over the past few weeks we've followed the journey of Polly the plastic bon bon toy to find out who she is and what she's made of all to demonstrate how plastics are made and where they end up.

Talkin’ trash this Christmas

Because we all know how bad rubbish is for the environment, we decided to give you a few tips on how to lighten your rubbish load this Christmas.

Oil spill lessons come full circle

Our recently published Oil Spill Monitoring Handbook provides world-class science, not just on oil spill clean ups, but the monitoring and restoration that follows.

FactCheck: do Australians with an average seafood diet ingest 11,000 pieces of plastic a year?

Are we ingesting 11,000 pieces of plastic every year? In the lead up to the Senate committee hearing on the threat of marine plastic pollution in Australia, Dr Denise Hardesty fact checks this alarming statistic.

Seabirds are eating plastic litter in our oceans – but not only where you’d expect

The results of our first ever worldwide analysis of the threat posed by plastic pollution to seabird species are worrying – but we can help alleviate the problem.

Eight million tonnes of plastic are going into the ocean each year

You might have heard the oceans are full of plastic, but how full exactly? Around 8 million metric tonnes go into the oceans each year, according to the first rigorous global estimate published in Science today.

The oceans are full of our plastic – here’s what we can do about it

Our oceans are full of plastic. These are the findings of our national marine debris research project - so what are we doing about it?

An ocean of plastic

It’s estimated that 80 million tons of plastics are produced globally each year. Because they are so durable, plastics require about […]

CSIRO scientists and helpers getting down and dirty with marine debris.

What a load of rubbish

We’re finding out what the most harmful marine debris is to our ocean’s seabirds, whales, dolphins and turtles. We want […]

Plastic, plastic everywhere… even in our oceans

By Fiona Henderson With summer just around the corner, many of us will be shaking out our beach towels, grabbing […]

Critical eyes search for debris on Australia’s beaches

Never let it be said that news@csiro is a party-pooper but maybe it is time for an end to releasing […]