Floating in the North Pacific Ocean is a mountain of waste the size of France. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of two masses of rubbish between the US and Japan and contains everything from ...

In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, The Ocean Cleanup team executed 112 trash extractions and have found that cleaning up the oceanic blight will come at a price tag of about $7 billion -- less ...

So where does all the trash go, then? The massive collection of debris in the Pacific Ocean has a formal name: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. National Geographic explains that the Great Pacific ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Roughly eight million tons of plastic enters the ocean every year. That’s according to a 2015 report, which also identified where the bulk of this trash originates. At the top of the list ...