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.

The Pacific and Atlantic Oceans meet off the southernmost tip of South America, and many factors contribute to how fast they ...

Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be cleaned using this Isaac Newton-inspired approach, scientists say. Story by Kamrin Baker • 4d. 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.

The Ocean Cleanup will collaborate with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to leverage AWS’s advanced artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and cloud computing capabilities to enable and accelerate ...

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.

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 ...