The claim that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch covers "8.1 percent of the Pacific Ocean" is also a matter of debate. The number appeared to come from a 2008 quote from Marcus Eriksen, ...

Haram and her colleagues examined 105 items of plastic fished out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch between November 2018 and January 2019. They identified 484 marine invertebrate organisms on ...

Roughly 79,000 metric tons of ocean plastic are floating inside The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a figure up to 16 times higher than previously estimated. This is 1.8 trillion pieces of trash, and ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is more than 600,000 square miles in size. First discovered in the early 1990s, the trash in the patch comes from around the Pacific Rim. It's working!

Related:Whales Have Been Spotted Swimming in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for the First Time The Ocean Cleanup Spinning circular currents keep the garbage within the bounds of its sprawling ...

Eliminating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Most of the plastics are floating in the top several feet of the ocean. Therefore, The Ocean Cleanup focuses on eliminating plastic from this top layer.

The garbage patch off the Pacific coast of the United States is so large that it’s become its own thriving ecosystem. A team of researchers has discovered that coastal species, in addition to ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch isn't what you think 01:51. The world's largest collection of ocean debris is also the most famous, but its name, the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," is a misnomer.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a collection of floating trash, most of it plastic, halfway between Hawaii and California, covers more than 600,000 square miles, studies have shown.

While studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, scientists found coastal species occurred on more than 70% of debris, according to a study published Monday in the Nature Ecology & Evolution journal.

Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be eliminated in 10 years, cleanup organization says. In their three years at sea, the Ocean Cleanup vessels have removed more than a million pounds of trash from ...