Scientists studying a giant collection of plastic trash floating ... who has studied life on ocean garbage in the South Pacific. "Beyond the surprise, I think the implications could be huge." ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific, captured by four currents ...

My team and I do this in two main ways: by dragging nets across areas where plastic accumulates, such as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a collection of debris in the North Pacific Ocean ...

Scientists studying a giant collection of plastic trash floating ... who has studied life on ocean garbage in the South Pacific. "Beyond the surprise, I think the implications could be huge." ...

Until now, most efforts to measure ocean debris have involved sample ... Even though the United States has a highly developed garbage collection system, it nevertheless made the top 20 for two ...

the largest iteration of its ocean cleaning system, targeting a Great Pacific Garbage Patch that covers an area twice as big as Texas. “Size does matter when it comes to ocean cleanup systems ...

Winds and converging ocean currents funnel the garbage into a central location, said study lead author Laurent Lebreton of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation, a non-profit organization that spearheaded ...

Many efforts to clean ocean trash have come to fruition in recent years — some so effective that they could clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ... to power the collection, transforming ...

The Ocean Cleanup has a huge task ... The animation shows massive trash-collection barriers sweeping through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch with great efficiency, with the company envisioning ...

“We find plastics there,” said Aron Stubbins, a professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern University. Stubbins says recent studies have surprised oceanic researchers. In a study ...

Though the photograph is authentic, it was captured in 2017 and shows a different patch of garbage off ... Garbage Patch," a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean.