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.

Although many environmental organizations are trying to solve this problem, it looks like only the Ocean Cleanup has come close to solving the problem of the large garbage patch. #ocean # ...

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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 in the Pacific Ocean that's more than twice the size of ...

The massive collection of debris in the Pacific Ocean has a formal name: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. National Geographic explains that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch developed as spinning ...