There is no example more famous than the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a heap of trash roughly double the size of Texas that ...

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helping to clean up the world's oceans. She set sail on a monthlong voyage into the North Pacific Gyre, parts of which are known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The gyre, or area of spiraling ...

And the biggest of them all is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. If you picked up each piece of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch you'd carry away about 1.8 trillion individual pieces.

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Discover what causes huge quantities of garbage to end up on the most remote ... area has given the North Pacific Gyre the nickname “the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” Most of the marine ...

Ten-year-old Anna Langdon heard about a problem and didn't wait for someone else to tell her how to help. The fourth grade student at Linntown Intermediate School in the Lewisburg Area School District ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. You’ve probably heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is a massive area in ...

Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ... The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific ...

Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ... The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific ...