If Captain Cook had set off on his legendary voyages in his bid to uncover the mysteries of the Pacific Ocean now ... come across the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch, one of the two Great Pacific ...
But there are 220 million pounds of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. So The Ocean Cleanup estimates that it would need about 10 Jennys to clean up 50% of the patch in five years.
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 ...
Charles Moore, an ocean researcher credited with discovering the Pacific garbage patch in 1997, said the Atlantic undoubtedly has comparable amounts of plastic. The east coast of the United States ...
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one of the most polluted areas of the ocean. 22-year-old Boyan Slat has a potential cleanup solution. The Ocean Cleanup uses a boom to capture plastic and keep ...
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 ...
The researchers collaborated with the Ocean Voyages Institute ... marine animals living on plastic debris in an area of the open ocean dubbed "the Great Pacific Garbage Patch".
A collection of plastic afloat in the Pacific Ocean is growing rapidly ... about 80,000 tonnes of plastic in the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" between California and Hawaii.
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 ...