The Ocean Cleanup vessel is on its way to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. ... it will arrive at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch–the gyre where an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of ...

ALSO READ: Study: Up To 90% Of Seabirds Have Plastic In Their Guts. If all goes well, more trips will be made and the researchers expect to remove half of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in five ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), a massive area of floating plastic debris that is more than twice the size of Texas, contains about 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic. This is between 4 and 16 ...

Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Texas-sized 'island' of trash in ocean, to be tackled by giant floating vessel By Jennifer Earl , Fox News Published September 7, 2018 10:57am EDT | Updated September ...

A nonprofit organization aimed at cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch made a stop in San Francisco on Friday to deliver a message. After six years of trying to find a solution to the ...

Garbage patch clean up: Group deploys huge device to collect ocean plastic The buoyant, U-shaped barrier made of plastic and with a tapered 10-foot deep screen, is intended to trap some of the 1.8 ...

Most of the ships used surface-sampling nets, but the lead vessel used a trawling system to pick up bigger objects out of the patch. The fleet gathered 1.2 million plastic samples during the ...

An ambitious project to clean up the ocean's plastic pollution got underway over the weekend as members of The Ocean Cleanup project began towing their system out to sea.

In March, research revealed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch floating between California and Hawaii was 1.6 million square kilometers in size – more than twice as large as Texas and much bigger ...

SAN FRANCISCO >> Engineers will deploy a trash collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in an attempt to clean up the world’s largest garbage patch in ...

It’s something Slat said could help clean up the ocean in 10 years for $7.5 billion, if not sooner. “There are numbers out there that this problem is costing the world up to $2.5 trillion ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), a massive area of floating plastic debris that is more than twice the size of Texas, contains about 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic. This is between 4 and 16 ...