The organization Ocean Cleanup says it can have the Great Pacific Garbage Patch eliminated within the next five years at a cost of $4 billion. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the largest area of ...

For this second installment of the Sea Camp series, we explore the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It's the largest of five ...

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, is now more than twice the size of Texas and three times the size of France.

It holds an estimated 79,000 tons of trash. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, where the garbage is concentrated, sits between California and Hawaii.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch occupies more than 600,000 square miles in the open ocean between Hawaii and California.

An island made of trash Description: There might be no more shocking physical representation of the way plastic waste is consuming our oceans than the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This iceberg ...

It's a mistake to think of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch as an island of trash, though, Matthias Egger, the head of environmental and social affairs at The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit developing ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is not island-like but rather millions of pieces of detritus covering a surface area twice the size of Texas, according to conservation non-profit The Ocean ...

In addition to removing trash from the garbage patch, the Ocean Cleanup has deployed trash interceptors in waste-ridden outlets to the world's oceans, including one in Marina del Rey.

In addition to removing trash from the garbage patch, the Ocean Cleanup has deployed trash interceptors in waste-ridden outlets to the world’s oceans, including one in Marina del Rey.