Appearing in the video is Captain Charles Moore, who first discovered the Great Garbage Patch in 1997 while sailing across the Pacific. However much trash is really swirling around in the North ...

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!

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 ...

Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Now So Vast That Sea Creatures Have Turned It Into a Home. A study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution found 484 marine invertebrates accounting for 46 different ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is so large that tiny creatures are making it home. Some 79,000 tonnes of plastic debris is swirling in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre between California and Hawaii ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an area between Hawaii and California where a large amount of litter, fishing gear, ... an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is 16 Times Bigger Than We Thought. Before starting its enormously ambitious mission, an organization devoted to cleaning ocean plastic first had to understand the ...

Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be eliminated in 10 years, cleanup organization says. In their three years at sea, the Ocean Cleanup vessels have removed more than a million pounds of trash from ...

Environmentalists from Ocean Cleanup who set out to survey the so-called "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" were stunned by the density of plastic containers, fishing nets, and other refuse.

While there are at least five garbage patches in the world, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also called the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, holds the most plastic.