That's over 350 million tons of candy wrappers, PVC pipes, and synthetic t-shirts. While most of it ends up in landfills, 8 million tons wind up in our oceans each year — where most finds its ...

My Russian fluency starts and ends ... wrappers are inspired by fairy tales and folk art. (Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times) Rosinskaya is from Saratov, Russia, and has memories of a nearby ...