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

The newest survey, which was conducted by The Ocean Cleanup Foundation ... the patch isn’t a garbage island, but rather a massive area of the Pacific that has an incredibly high plastic density.

Standing on the island's remote shoreline brings ... miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you probably contribute to.

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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 ... Designer Mario Kerkstra created the identity for the island, ...

Discover what causes huge quantities of garbage to end up on the most remote islands in the world and ... Much of the debris that ends up in the North Pacific Ocean gets drawn into the North ...

The Honduran island of Roatán ... clean plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a vortex of trash in the North Pacific Ocean that is more than three times the size of Spain.

Underwater photographer Caroline Power captured the picture, which shows a large area of trash off the coast of Roatán Island, Honduras, in 2017. The island is in the Caribbean Sea, not the Pacific ...