But don't let the name "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" fool you. It doesn't look like a giant mountain of trash at all. It's actually scattered over a region of ocean that's twice the size of Texas ...
The researchers collaborated with the Ocean Voyages Institute to collect ... debris in an area of the open ocean dubbed "the Great Pacific Garbage Patch". Many of the creatures are coastal species ...
from the Great Pacific Garbage patch. (plastic trash spills upon deck) ♪ NARRATOR: The success has inspired a very ambitious target: to remove 90% of floating ocean plastic by 2040. That will ...
With more than 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic – and counting – The Great North Pacific Garbage Patch has more plastic than ...
Without fanfare, The Ocean Cleanup recently completed its 100th trawl of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, removing almost one million pounds of plastic refuse from the area since launching its ...
The sailor has come across the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch, one of the two Great Pacific Garbage patches ... and disperse mountains of microplastics into the ocean, which then make their way ...
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest accumulation of plastic in the world, but one company says it can get rid of ...
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 ...
The Maersk Tender is one of two ships employed by the non-profit group The Ocean Cleanup to tackle the seemingly ...
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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 ...
A documentary about an all-female crew's journey through an area of ocean dubbed "the Great Pacific Garbage Patch" is set for release this month. Eleanor Church, 41, from Colchester, sailed with ...