In 2011, Melissa Heiner told KSL, "We always have a wind coming through here in Clarkston, and it's going to blow trash everywhere." Plastic debris from the North Valley Landfill in Cache County ...

The majority of plastic ... of the ocean was like looking for needles in a haystack, since the formation of trails requires the presence of a large amount of garbage and little wind to prevent ...

According to a 2021 study by The Nature Conservancy and UC Santa Barbara, more than 100 million pounds of plastic from industrial fishing gear wind up as ocean trash each year. A previous study by the ...

"It was mind blowing ... is plastic, according to the United Nations. Once these plastics enter a gyre, or an ocean vortex, they stay there until they degrade to microplastics. "That garbage ...

Remember The Ocean ... put plastic bags out, basically the dogs got them, the rain got them, the wind got them. "The best estimate was that only about 50 per cent of domestic trash got to ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an ... thanks to diminished wind and wave action. Alamy Plastic debris that does find its way into the open oceans can drift for years if it remains buoyant ...

Trash from humans is constantly ... us humans have such large impacts in the ocean that, you know, our footprint is so far out," she laments. "Plastic being in the patch could be harmful for ...

Since 2021, the nonprofit has recovered 200 tons of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ... Add to this wind and swirling ocean currents, which bring plastic and neuston in from afar ...

Add to that roughly 8-10 million metric tons of plastic ... garbage, it’s not. Trust me, that doesn’t make what I am about to say any better. The litter in the oceans is constantly mixed by ...

But the abundance of ocean plastics poses new scientific questions. How do these species subsist on plastic ... "mind blowing.” It also makes it hard to predict where they’ll wind up.

That’s right, this part of the ocean ... littered with our trash. This is a place that no human can reach without extremely specialized equipment, and yet there are plastic ropes, cups, bags ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an enormous ... thanks to diminished wind and wave action. Britta Baechler, senior manager of ocean plastic research at the environmental campaign organsiation ...