"Waiter, there are fragments of synthetic polymers in my soup" does not have quite the ring to it as the old joke about the ...

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Animals that have adapted to it – 46 different ... This week we had our largest ever extraction from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: 11,353 kg of plastic out of the ocean for good.

If an animal is spotted ... in the middle of the open ocean far away from human beings." The Great Pacific Garbage Patch got its name from oceanographer Charles J. Moore, who coined the term ...

The upcoming System 03, or "Josh," promises even greater cleanups, boasting enhancements like the "MASH" – a marine animal safety ... The Great Pacific Garbage Patch and The Ocean Cleanup's ...

Additionally, animals such as sea turtles ... such as the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch. We also wanted to investigate zones in the open ocean that had hardly been explored.

And even larger animals like a sperm whale swam by ... the researchers broke down which neustons were most common in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, based on data collected during Lecomte ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an enormous pile of floating trash ... local ecosystem by entangling marine life in fishing nets, animals eating plastic and other debris and by transporting ...

suggesting the animals are inadvertently eating the waste along with the prey. The life in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch floats like plastic and probably got concentrated in the area by the same ...