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

The remote area of sea where the GPGP is located is surrounded by the North Pacific Gyre, a network of rotating ocean currents. These ensnare plastic and other debris that enters their flow ...

The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit environmental engineering organization, saw its largest extraction earlier this month by removing about 25,000 pounds of trash from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ...

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Synopsis: Between the state of California and Hawaiæi lies the great Pacific garbage patch. It is 1.6 million square kilometers in area, which is twice the state of Texas and three times the size of ...

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." ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is the largest accumulation of ocean plastic waste, spanning an area twice the size of Texas. Composed mainly of plastic debris like toothbrushes, plates ...

When researchers traveled to a tiny, uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they were astonished to find an estimated 38 million pieces of trash washed up on the beaches.

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – The Green Bay Botanical Garden unveiled a unique exhibit to encourage saving our planet’s water: Animal sculptures made of trash and debris from the Pacific Ocean. The ...