As plastic waste continues to grow, so does the trash that's accumulating in the Pacific Ocean. Two huge floating islands of ...

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.

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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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This means more toxic air pollution and plastic in our oceans ... The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic debris in the ...

The overproduction of waste has become one of the biggest problems of our times, one that has led to the creation of the likes of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. One of the best ways of dealing with ...