As plastic waste continues to grow, so does the trash that's accumulating in the Pacific Ocean. Two huge floating islands of ...

And the biggest of them all is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. If you picked up each piece of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch you'd carry away about 1.8 trillion individual pieces.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest accumulation of plastic in the world, but one company says it can get rid of ...

Every year, several tons of debris from the North Pacific Garbage Patch ends up on Hawaiʻi's shores. Scientists have ...

Predictions suggest a build-up of about 80,000 tonnes of plastic in the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" between California and Hawaii. This figure is up to sixteen times higher than previously ...

He was part of the team which discovered the first ocean "garbage patch" in the North Pacific gyre in 1997 and has now turned his attention to the South Pacific. Although plastic is known to occur ...

but no collection of marine debris is quite as big as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a trash-filled vortex in the Pacific Ocean that's more than twice the size of Texas. The gyre is said to ...

One of the studies describes an accumulation of micro-particles similar to the so called Pacific Garbage Patch, which was discovered a decade ago somewhere between Hawaii and California and which ...

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More than six years after the 24-year-old launched The Ocean Cleanup, the organization is still struggling to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a trash-filled vortex that's more than twice ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Now Has Its Own Visual Identity Give that massive pile of trash a currency, a passport, and a flag, and you've got yourself a nation. Do You Have 5 Minutes A Day To ...