The Great Pacific Garbage Patch isn’t just a floating trash pile. There are roughly 171 trillion pieces of plastic lurking in the world's oceans. By RJ Mackenzie. Published Apr 13, 2025 8:00 AM EDT.

Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans, forming garbage patches? Environmentalists from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation British fund have even calculated that if garbage ...

Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be cleaned using this Isaac Newton-inspired approach, scientists say. Story by Kamrin Baker • 1w. W hen plastic gets to the ocean, it tends to accumulate in ...

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.

More information: Luca Kunz et al, Transient Attracting Profiles in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Ocean Science (2024). DOI: 10.5194/os-20-1611-2024.