Fungi have been recognized as potential allies in the fight against plastic pollution for a while now. These microorganisms ...

See, one of the biggest problems with cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is that just going in and scooping it up ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one of the most polluted areas ... it in areas where a boat can come and periodically pick it up. The pipe moves with the waves and uses floating anchors.

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of fishing nets and consumer plastics from the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone (more commonly known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ... largest at sea clean-up in the Gyre to date ...

Moore, the oceanographer who first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, has said cleaning up the garbage patch would "bankrupt any country" that tried it. While the outlook sounds rather ...

Once it was set up in the Pacific Garbage Patch ... hopes to construct a fleet of these plastic-cleaning devices. A ship could visit the garbage patch every few months and tow the debris to ...

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

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.

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