Scientists map ocean currents to trap floating trash and plastic debris, improving cleanup efforts of the Great Pacific ...
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Plastic waste is increasingly causing problems for fishers. Fishnets bring up bottles, propellers get tangled in bags, water pumps get clogged with debris, and boats collide with bags of trash. Until ...
Scientists use satellite data to find ocean zones where trash naturally gathers for easier, faster, and cleaner clean-up.
Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents ... world's oceans of plastic. More information: Luca Kunz et al, Transient Attracting Profiles in the Great Pacific Garbage ...
But the Mediterranean has become Europe's deepest garbage ... Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Mariana Islands. It stretches down nearly 36,100 feet (11,000 metres) below the surface. One plastic ...
The newest survey, which was conducted by The Ocean Cleanup Foundation ... but rather a massive area of the Pacific that has an incredibly high plastic density. Plastic trash which has broken ...