And the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not alone ... Ocean Cleanup has also created giant floating "interceptor" booms that gather and remove vast quantities of plastic trash from the world's ...

A vast patch of floating plastics garbage extending for thousands of square kilometres in a remote area of the North Atlantic has been documented by two different groups of scientists sailing from ...

a floating garbage patch exists throughout the world’s gyres. The most well known of these is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the northern Pacific Ocean. The patch consists mainly of plastic ...

Aptly named Seabin, these garbage cans float around harbors and marinas vacuuming loose rubbish. How do they work? Seabins are connected to a floating dock, which have pumps that create a water ...

but the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest and the one that has garnered the most attention. Most of the plastics are ...

A similar patch of floating plastic debris is found in the Atlantic Ocean - the North Atlantic garbage patch - which was first documented in 1972, which also contributes to environmental damage to ...

The largest of these vortexes, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is located in Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and California. It's estimated to contain more than 1.8 trillion pieces of floating ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one of the most polluted areas ... The pipe moves with the waves and uses floating anchors. Critics are skeptical of the system's compatibility with the extreme ...

The infamous Pacific garbage patch is changing the balance of life in the seas. At least 37 species of coastal creatures — worms, crabs, shellfish and the like — have ...

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 ...