The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Now Has Its Own Visual Identity Give that massive pile of trash a currency, a passport, and a flag, and you've got yourself a nation. Do You Have 5 Minutes A Day To ...

Boyan Slat has never been afraid to dream big. His mission in life is to rid the world of as much plastic pollution as he can, and he’s doing it through aptly-named The Ocean Cleanup. The last ...

Many of the creatures are coastal species, living miles from their usual habitats, on a patch halfway between ... floating debris to accumulate - in the Pacific. Lead researcher Dr Linsey Haram ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest accumulation of plastic in the world, but one company says it can get rid of ...

A documentary about an all-female crew's journey through an area of ocean dubbed "the Great Pacific Garbage Patch" is set for release this month. Eleanor Church, 41, from Colchester, sailed with ...

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Ever find trash on the beach and wonder where it comes from? There's a good chance it came from a large concentration of ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

Because of that, the organization has focused on removing larger pieces of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Laurent Lebreton ... which sat about 10 centimeters above the water.

A crew of sailors has returned to Victoria from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, hauling away more than eight tonnes of plastic pollution. But their work is far from over. “That’s not as much ...

And the biggest of them all is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. If you picked up each piece of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch you'd carry away about 1.8 trillion individual pieces.