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 ...

Instead, the patch is spread out over a large area, and is estimated to be made up of around 80,000 metric tons of garbage. It is believed to contain some 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic , majority ...

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About as big as Alaska. It rivals Australia in expanse. A prototype from the Ocean Cleanup company captured plastic debris from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean in 2019.

There's an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of trash in the garbage patch, according to Conservation.org, which also projects that by 2050, the mass of ocean trash from plastic will outweigh its fish.

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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 ...

There is a lot of plastic trash floating in the Pacific Ocean, but claims that the "Great Garbage Patch" between California and Japan is twice the size of Texas are grossly exaggerated, according ...