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A massive floating island of plastic is growing fast ... and other plastic garbage being pulled out of the ocean at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), located between halfway between Hawaii ...

Did you know that there's a garbage patch twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean? What's more, this trash pool ...

As far back as 1973, seafarers traveling through the North Pacific Ocean noticed an unusually ... causing many to believe that these are islands of trash. Instead, the debris is spread across ...

After returning from the Transpacific Yacht Race — an annual sailboat race from Los Angeles to Honolulu — in 1997, Capt. Charles Moore was guiding his boat through the doldrums when he noticed ...

It’s a mistake to think of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch as an island of trash, though, Matthias Egger, the head of environmental and social affairs at The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit ...

Images of floating plastic island are often found in ... photo that was said to show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." 13K Views · 126 Reactions | An Ocean of Plastic | A Group of Recently ...

When researchers traveled to the tiny, uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they were astonished to find an estimated 38 million pieces of trash washed up on the beaches.

the Pacific trash vortex and the island of floating trash. It was a colorful symbol of an often overlooked problem. Global warming had its starving polar bear; now, ocean pollution had its ...

Over a thousand miles from land in the central North Pacific Ocean, the boat captain and ... and referred to as a trash island. However, contrary to popular belief, there is no surface on which ...

MORE: 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' is massive floating island of plastic, now 3 times the size of France By the end of the month, The Ocean Cleanup will launch System 03, a larger version of its ...

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