It is hoped the final design will be able to clean up half of the debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, The Guardian said. The results are promising enough to begin designing a second system ...

After three years extracting plastic waste from the notorious Great Pacific ... Ocean Cleanup said in a press release, announcing the group’s intention to eliminate the garbage patch entirely.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific, captured by four currents ...

The Ocean Cleanup declares the Great Pacific Garbage Patch can be eliminated Ocean Plastic pollution is one of the most urgent problems our oceans face today, costing the world up to $2.5 trillion ...

There is no example more famous than the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a heap of trash roughly ... turned to space to conceptualize how to clean it up. Research scientist Rodrigo Duran from the ...

And I think if we can clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, this seemingly insurmountable thing, I think is going to be an inspiration for many people," Slat said.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a name given to an estimated ... humanity has the tools needed to clean up the ocean." Researchers have found that the patch is growing rapidly, making it ...

Several days ago, The Ocean Cleanup (TOC) project announced its ambitious timeline and cost to get the Great Pacific Garbage Patch cleaned up once and for all: 10 years and US$7.5 billion.

Two huge floating islands of garbage are taking up hundreds of thousands ... The Ocean Cleanup estimates that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch occupies 1.6 million square kilometers, about twice ...

And I think if we can clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, this seemingly insurmountable thing, I think is going to be an inspiration for many people," Slat said.

Six years ago, the company sent two ships out to the garbage patch in an effort to develop technology to clean it up for good. MORE: Researchers find Great Pacific garbage patch teeming with life ...