In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer ...

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific ...

Scientists use satellite data to find ocean zones where trash naturally gathers for easier, faster, and cleaner clean-up.

The Great Pacific garbage patch is now bigger ... that the patch is the result of a combination of ocean currents that corral tons of manmade trash into a vortex of sorts. It covers and absolutely ...

This vast ocean dump is a by-product of one of the ... the majority of the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch originates from five countries: Japan, China, South Korea, the United States ...

Floating in the North Pacific Ocean is a mountain of waste the size of France. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of two masses of rubbish between the US and Japan and contains everything from ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN ... Some 8 million tons of plastic trash leak into the ocean annually, and it's getting worse every year. Americans are said to use 2.5 million plastic ...

X Trillion” was selected as the winner in the category of Feature Length Documentary Film from a panel of marine scientists ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest accumulation ... for plastic pollution to be treated as the hazardous waste that it is.

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Marine debris is trash and other solid man-made material ... Much of the debris that ends up in the North Pacific Ocean gets drawn into the North Pacific Gyre by currents. The North Pacific ...

Roughly eight million tons of plastic enters the ocean every year. That’s according to a 2015 report, which also identified where the bulk of this trash originates. At the top of the list ...