You see photos of plastic pollution in the ocean ... blown away because it’s so lightweight. From there, it can eventually clutter around drains and enter rivers and the sea this way. Litter dropped ...

There is no example more famous than the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a heap of trash roughly double the size of Texas that ...

The world produces enough plastic each year to ... 8 million tons wind up in our oceans each year — where most finds its way into massive garbage patches around the world. And the biggest ...

About nine million tons of visible plastic trash enter ... and bobbing in oceans. And then there’s the plastic waste we can’t see: microplastics, whittled by sun, wind, and waves into bits ...

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 ...

And those bits might still be floating around the world’s oceans today ... It’s then blown or washed into the sea. Imagine five plastic grocery bags stuffed with plastic trash, Jambeck ...

I thought it was rocks and I touched them and they weren't rocks and they were like plastic ... waters, ocean swimmers tried to avoid them but the Velella were shifting with the wind and currents.

Discover what causes huge quantities of garbage to end up on the most remote islands in the world and how this garbage affects wildlife. Accompanies the Web video “Trash on the Spin Cycle”.

The Ocean Cleanup project was created by Boyan Slat at the age of 22. $30 Million has been raised to fund his idea. It's set to help clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch located between Hawaii ...