But don't let the name "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" fool you. It doesn't look like a giant mountain of trash at all. It's actually scattered over a region of ocean that's twice the size of Texas ...
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP ... provides a detailed analysis of the size and types of plastic caught up in the Garbage Patch, which occupies about 1.6 million square kilometers ...
As plastic waste continues to grow, so does the trash ... of garbage are taking up hundreds of thousands of square miles of real estate in what's known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...
In 2013, Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit that aims to remove plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a trash-filled vortex ... can retain various types of plastic, thanks to ...
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made ... announced a campaign to make the Pacific garbage patch a recognised state. An application submitted to the UN on World Ocean’s Day asks for ‘The Trash Isles ...