A new study published in Environmental Research Letters reveals a disturbing trend in the North Pacific Garbage Patch ... to decades of inadequate plastic waste management globally.

Floating in the North Pacific Ocean is a mountain of waste the size of France. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of two masses of rubbish between the US and Japan and contains everything from ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN ... Some 8 million tons of plastic trash leak into the ocean annually, and it's getting worse every year. Americans are said to use 2.5 million plastic ...

Over time, this trash can accumulate in offshore garbage patches and linger there for decades. The largest of these vortexes, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is located in Pacific Ocean between ...

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 a gyre of plastic debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest accumulation of plastic in the world ... Clean Water Act and will keep pushing for ...

Roughly eight million tons of plastic enters the ocean every year. That’s according to a 2015 report, which also identified where the bulk of this trash originates. At the top of the list ...