The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is estimated to have 100,000 tons of plastic in the North Pacific Ocean, but despite ...

(serene music) - If you've heard of the Great Pacific garbage patch, then you probably won't be surprised to hear that there's plastic pollution in the Great Lakes too.

Garbage mountains rising above the sea. A thick crust of filth coating the ocean’s surface. It’s easy to find striking images of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP).

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, or GPGP for short, isn't exactly what you might have heard. It's not a floating garbage land-mass twice the size of Texas that you can settle, even though it kind ...

Captain Charles Moore discovered the 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' in 1997 and he has spent much of his life revealing how pervasive plastic is in our oceans.

What makes the Great Pacific Garbage Patch so great? And I have to admit that while it is nothing like those other great world monuments, the Great Wall of China and the Great Barrier Reef.

For the first time in history, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is habitable for various marine organisms.

In 1997 Captain Charles Moore was sailing from Hawaii to California when he noticed a steady stream of plastics bobbing in the ocean. He had discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

In 1997, Captain Charles Moore first discovered the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” the largest accumulation of plastic waste in the ocean. Since then, scientists have documented how plastic ...