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

Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans, forming garbage patches? Environmentalists from the ...

But don't let the name "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" fool you. It doesn't look like a giant mountain of trash at all. It's actually scattered over a region of ocean that's twice the size of Texas ...

Baby batfish (Platax) hiding in ocean trash (Taiwan). Large amount of plastic bags and trash attached to plants next to a river Large amount of plastic trash attached to plants next to a river from ...

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 ...

A thin stretch of the eastern Pacific Ocean has been getting colder for the ... nutrient-rich water” of the cold tongue has become a “prosperous patch [that] feeds phytoplankton and breathes ...

In 2013, Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit that aims to remove plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a trash-filled vortex in the Pacific Ocean that's more than twice the size of ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one of the most polluted areas of the ocean. 22-year-old Boyan Slat has a potential cleanup solution. The Ocean Cleanup uses a boom to capture plastic and keep ...

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