The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not a floating island that can simply be scooped out of the sea. It is a vast plastic soup ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk.
Ocean Vortex is a spiraling floating parliament concept built from recycled marine plastic, turning the Great Pacific Garbage ...
A study published in Environmental Research Letters reveals that centimeter-sized plastic fragments are increasing much faster than larger floating plastics in the North Pacific Garbage Patch [NPGP], ...
A crew of engineers in the middle of the ocean will try to fix a device that was intended to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, where an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic have coalesced ...