This vast ocean dump is a by-product of one ... the majority of the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch originates from five countries: Japan, China, South Korea, the United States, and ...

It's actually scattered over a region of ocean that's twice the size ... If you picked up each piece of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch you'd carry away about 1.8 trillion individual ...

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

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 ...

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Fungi have been recognized as potential allies in the fight against plastic pollution for a while now. These microorganisms ...

Researchers at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa recently discovered that many species of fungi isolated from Hawai‘i’s ...

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 ...

Each year, millions of tons of plastic and other waste ... collection of debris in the Pacific Ocean has a formal name: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. National Geographic explains that the ...