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.

Although many environmental organizations are trying to solve this problem, it looks like only the Ocean Cleanup has come close to solving the problem of the large garbage patch. #ocean # ...

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 ...

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 ...