Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk. Garbage mountains rising above the sea. A thick crust of filth coating the ocean’s surface. It’s easy to find striking images of the ...

For this second installment of the Sea Camp series, we explore the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It's the largest of five ...

Ocean cleanup group removes record 25,000 pounds of trash from Great Pacific Garbage Patch in one extraction. A new system will be able to clear a football field every five seconds.

Millions of tons of floating plastic end up in the ocean each year. The largest mass of accumulated plastic in the world is ...

July 26, 2010— -- A 60-foot catamaran made out of plastic bottles completed a four-month journey across the Pacific Ocean today, ... calling their trip a "journey from trash to triumph." ...

Although many environmental organizations are trying to solve this problem, it looks like only the Ocean Cleanup has come close to solving the problem of the large garbage patch. #ocean # ...