It’s easy to find striking images of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). The problem is that these pictures of the GPGP are misleading and obscure the truth about the content of the GPGP ...

More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. 31,560 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?31,560 people played the daily Crossword ...

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.

The 600-meter-long structure will tackle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—a huge buildup of trash floating between California and Hawaii—but not everyone thinks it will work. A series of rodent ...

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One of the studies describes an accumulation of micro-particles similar to the so called Pacific Garbage ... “We have found the great Atlantic garbage patch” said Anna Cummins who collected ...

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 ...

To date, the partnership has contributed to the removal of over one million pounds of plastic from the world's largest accumulation of floating waste – the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ...