The Ocean Cleanup (TOC) project has announced the timeline and cost it would take to get the Great Pacific Garbage Patch cleaned up once and for all, using existing technology – 10 years and 7.5 ...

In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from the world’s oceans and rivers. They even put a price tag on cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

The accumulated floating plastic known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 620,000 square miles — nearly twice the size of Texas. One group is trying to clean up the more than 100,000 tons of ...

Marine animals that usually live only in western Pacific coastal areas have been found living and reproducing in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

A survey of plastic waste picked up in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre—aka the Giant Pacific Garbage Patch—has revealed that the garbage is providing a home to species that would otherwise ...

A documentary about an all-female crew's journey through an area of ocean dubbed "the Great Pacific Garbage Patch" is set for release this month. Eleanor Church, 41, from Colchester, sailed with ...

After three years extracting plastic waste from the notorious Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an environmental nonprofit says it can finish the job within a decade, with a price tag of several ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a massive collection of marine debris, is now estimated to be twice the size of Texas!" Other iterations of the photo appeared in 2021 and throughout 2024.

Marine creatures that drift through the ocean are riding currents to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. A surprising number of delicate invertebrates, called neustons, are making it home, according ...

In 1997, Captain Charles Moore first discovered the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” the largest accumulation of plastic waste in the ocean. Since then, scientists have documented how plastic ...

Biologists who fished toothbrushes, rope and broken bottle shards from the patch found them studded with gooseneck barnacles and jet-black sea anemones.