The garbage patch off the Pacific coast of the United States is so large that it’s become its own thriving ecosystem. A team of researchers has discovered that coastal species, in addition to ...

The growing patch of garbage is chock full of all sort of things, chief among them plastic. An estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of it weigh in at 80,000 tons, according to the Ocean Cleanup Foundation .

Oceanic 'garbage patch' not nearly as big as portrayed in media Date: January 5, 2011 Source: Oregon State University Summary: There is a lot of plastic trash floating in the Pacific Ocean, but ...

Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans, forming garbage patches? Environmentalists from the ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is so big that there was a campaign last year for it to be recognized as a sovereign nation By Sam Hart • Published April 2, 2018 • Updated on July 31, 2019 at ...

Dear Tom, I have heard about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the north Pacific Ocean. How big is it? Are there any plans to clean it up? — Thomas, Chicago Dear Thomas, The name is misleading ...

Moore estimates that the new patch could cover one million square kilometers, making it 1.5 times bigger than the state of Texas, but the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration ...

The Pacific Ocean is being treated like a giant dumpster — and it’s starting to look like one, too. A “floating” island of trash dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) now stretches ...

Dear Tom, I have heard about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the north Pacific Ocean. How big is it? Are there any plans to clean it up? — Thomas, Chicago Dear Thomas, The name is misleading ...

Although the garbage patch is typically portrayed as “a floating island of plastic trash the size of Texas,” in actuality it only contains the occasional large piece of trash or fishing gear ...

A sample of the garbage found in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is stored on the Ocean Starr during the 30-day Mega Expedition. Photographed on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015 in San Francisco, Calif.

The phenomenon is known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and researchers with The Ocean Cleanup foundation estimate it covers more than 600,000 square miles, ...