Eventually, most of it ends up in one of five known major swirling patches of garbage. These are known ... have released buoys into the sea to track ocean current. In this visualization, they ...

Amid vast, swirling currents, 170 trillion microplastic particles drift unseen through our oceans, creating hidden patches of ...

"The planet is pretty big, it turns out," Boyan said. "There's about 1,000 rivers we need to tackle and five ocean garbage patches, [so] the first few years were really about trying to understand ...

These microplastics make up a staggering 94% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, according to the WorldWildlife Fund ...

These microplastics make up a staggering 94% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, according to ... AI and drones could keep it to five. It won’t be cheap. Ocean Cleanup reckons it will cost ...

The Ocean Cleanup, a Netherlands-based company, says the Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be eliminated within the next five ...

The researchers collaborated with the Ocean Voyages Institute to collect ... an area of the open ocean dubbed "the Great Pacific Garbage Patch". Many of the creatures are coastal species, living ...