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 ...

Eventually, most of it ends up in one of five known major swirling patches of garbage. These are known ... have released buoys into the sea to track ocean current. In this visualization, they ...

Ocean Garbage Patches Have a Microscopic Problem Giant garbage patches are the most visible part of the oceans’ trash problem. But scientists are also worried about less conspicuous debris known ...

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 ...

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With plastic recovery operations now underway in the world’s marine garbage patches, scientists must contend with how little was known about the organisms living at the surface. Amanda was an ...

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 ...