As plastic waste continues to grow, so does the trash that's accumulating in the Pacific Ocean. Two huge floating islands of ...
With more than 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic – and counting – The Great North Pacific Garbage Patch has more plastic than ...
An analysis of the trash vortex's composition revealed a clear increase in the presence of plastic microparticles between ...
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 ...
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 ...
Volunteers helped collect the garbage from nearly 50 miles of coastline ... Debris from Asia often travels across the northern part of the Pacific Ocean toward the U.S., whereas trash from the western ...
And the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not alone ... The organisation believes 80% of all ocean trash stems from just 1,000 rivers. As of August, the group has collected more than 16,000 tons ...
Accompanies the Web video “Trash on the Spin Cycle ... Gyre the nickname “the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” Most of the marine debris in the ocean is not biodegradable.
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, around 1,200 miles from shore, sits a giant vortex of trash known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The site is home to more than 1.8 trillion pieces of ...
trash. Victor Vescovo, a retired naval officer, said he made the unsettling discovery as he descended nearly 10,928 metres to a point in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench that is the deepest ...
If Captain Cook had set off on his legendary voyages in his bid to uncover the mysteries of the Pacific ... to all the trash that is hauled week after week. According to The Ocean Cleanup, they ...