And the biggest of them all is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. If you picked up each piece of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch you'd carry away about 1.8 trillion individual pieces.

“We have found the great Atlantic garbage patch” said Anna Cummins who collected samples of floating plastic during the trip last February. The floating residue are harmful for ...

Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans, forming garbage patches? Environmentalists from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation British fund have even calculated that if garbage ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest accumulation of plastic in the world. Just how big is it? Using the map below, click ...

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Discover the advanced technologies and groundbreaking strategies aiming to clean ocean garbage and eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ... Canadian home The best big city in America to ...