The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is more than 600,000 square miles in size. First discovered in the early 1990s, the trash in the patch comes from around the Pacific Rim. It's working!

Haram and her colleagues examined 105 items of plastic fished out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch between November 2018 and January 2019. They identified 484 marine invertebrate organisms on ...

Related:Whales Have Been Spotted Swimming in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for the First Time The Ocean Cleanup Spinning circular currents keep the garbage within the bounds of its sprawling ...

A garbage sample is pulled out of the ocean at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), located between halfway between Hawaii and California, in a photo provided by The Ocean Cleanup on March 23 ...

Eliminating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Most of the plastics are floating in the top several feet of the ocean. Therefore, The Ocean Cleanup focuses on eliminating plastic from this top layer.

An ocean mass of plastic waste known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch floating off the coast of California attracted new attention Thursday with a report concluding that its size was ...

Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Now So Vast That Sea Creatures Have Turned It Into a Home. ... Vt. Shelter Saves 2 Dogs and a Cat Found Wandering the Streets Together in a Real-Life Homeward Bound ...

Below is a guest post from Oliver Harris, the co-founder of STOP Ocean Plastics, who believes the media has missed a key point in the controversial debate about the islands of garbage said to be ...

The data now shows the garbage patch measures nearly 620,000 square miles (1.6 million square kilometers) and contains 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic that weigh as much as 500 jumbo jets.