A vast patch of floating plastics garbage extending for thousands of square kilometres in a remote area of the North Atlantic has ... similar to the so called Pacific Garbage Patch, which was ...

In a part of the ocean known as the North Pacific Gyre ... This is the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is not an actual floating island of garbage, but which is filled with floating ...

Miriam Goldstein on the North Pacific Garbage Patch Miriam Goldstein's team has been towing nets across the ocean to collect and analyze the tiny bits of plastic accumulating in the great pacific ...

of fishing nets and consumer plastics from the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone (more commonly known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch or Gyre). The Pacific Gyre, located halfway ...

Two huge floating islands of garbage are taking up hundreds of thousands of square miles of real estate in what's known as ...

He was part of the team which discovered the first ocean "garbage patch" in the North Pacific gyre in 1997 and has now turned his attention to the South Pacific. Although plastic is known to occur ...

An international cohort of marine scientists discovered an ocean-borne fungus chomping through plastic trash suspended in the ...

Plastics migrate across the World Ocean with streams. The biggest patch is the so-called North Pacific Garbage Patch. It is a giant mass of plastic litter, growing in the areas, where the streams ...

The sailor has come across the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch, one of the two Great Pacific Garbage patches that sprawl a total of over 1.6 million square kilometres — half the size of India!

Hyundai Motor Group’s Kia brand says it has developed the world’s first car accessory made from plastic extracted from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) by The Ocean Cleanup. The ...

If you’re lucky enough to have a kitchen sink with a garbage disposal, then you know how useful they are when it comes to getting rid of food residue after doing dishes. The only downside is ...