A giant patch of garbage in the Pacific Ocean is now “an immense floating plastic habitat” for marine animals clinging to its plastic debris, researchers have found. Coastal plant and animal ...

In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the water bottle could be from Los ... In fact, the top six countries for ocean garbage are China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and ...

The Patch sprawls across an estimated 620,000 square miles of ocean: a blight more than six times the size of Britain. Without fanfare, The Ocean Cleanup recently completed its 100th trawl of the ...

Instead, it appears that they are well suited to life in the open ocean as long as there's something there that they can latch on to. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023 ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an enormous agglomeration of plastic waste floating in the world's largest ocean, but it's not the only one.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is one of a number of stretches of ocean littered with plastic trash. While larger items like fishing nets or plastic shopping bags are the most visible ...

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.

Ocean currents, acting as giant conveyer belts, then carry the plastic into several subtropical regions, such as the infamous Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch. In the 1970s, ...

Recently, the non-profit organization Ocean Cleanup announced its plan to launch a mechanism designed to remove half of the plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, known as a gyre, off the ...

By using models of ocean currents, researchers have calculated the boundaries of each section of the ocean, which can extend beyond the traditionally defined borders. In the process, they found that ...