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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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!

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is mostly composed of plastics that float. According to the same study cited by Seaspiracy, only about 60% of the plastic is capable of floating.

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 ...

Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Now So Vast That Sea Creatures Have Turned It Into a Home. A study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution found 484 marine invertebrates accounting for 46 different ...

A garbage sample is pulled out of the ocean at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), located between halfway between Hawaii and California, in a photo provided by The Ocean Cleanup on March 23 ...

In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the water bottle could be from Los Angeles, the food container from Manila, and the plastic bag from Shanghai.

Inventor attempts to conquer the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" 02:05 ALAMEDA, Calif. — A ship on Saturday will start towing a long device from Northern California more than 1,000 miles out to ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch weighs 87,000 tons -- 16 times more than previous estimates -- and contains more than 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic, according to a new analysis.