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.

It’s easy to find striking images of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). The problem is that these pictures of the GPGP are misleading and obscure the truth about the content of the GPGP ...

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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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest accumulation of plastic in the world. Just how big is it? Using the map below, click ...

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

and consists of massive domes made from algae and garbage from the great Pacific garbage patch. Produced by Rob Ludacer Follow TI: On Facebook More from Tech A Belgian Architect has designed a ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest accumulation of plastic in the world. Just how big is it? Using the map below, click ...