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.

To grasp the scale of the problem, consider that the area of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is larger than Germany. Laurent Lebreton, the lead author of the study, emphasizes that the increase in ...

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 ...

Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans, forming garbage patches? Environmentalists from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation British fund have even calculated that if garbage ...

The massive collection of debris in the Pacific Ocean has a formal name: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. National Geographic explains that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch developed as spinning ...

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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 ...