The claim that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch covers "8.1 percent of the Pacific Ocean" is also a matter of debate. The number appeared to come from a 2008 quote from Marcus Eriksen, ...

Roughly 79,000 metric tons of ocean plastic are floating inside The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a figure up to 16 times higher than previously estimated. This is 1.8 trillion pieces of trash, and ...

In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the water bottle could be from Los Angeles, the food container from Manila, and the plastic bag from Shanghai. $3,500 iPhone possible?

The data now shows the garbage patch measures nearly 620,000 square miles (1.6 million square kilometers) and contains 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic that weigh as much as 500 jumbo jets.

Environmentalists from Ocean Cleanup who set out to survey the so-called "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" were stunned by the density of plastic containers, fishing nets, and other refuse.

It’s not all bottles and straws—the patch is mostly abandoned fishing gear. Marine researcher Charles Moore holds a sample of water with debris from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which he ...

Eliminating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Most of the plastics are floating in the top several feet of the ocean. Therefore, The Ocean Cleanup focuses on eliminating plastic from this top layer.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is more than 600,000 square miles in size. First discovered in the early 1990s, the trash in the patch comes from around the Pacific Rim. It's working!

The Ocean Cleanup estimates that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch occupies 1.6 million square kilometers, about twice the size of Texas, or three times the size of France. It's estimated to span ...

Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be eliminated in 10 years, cleanup organization says. In their three years at sea, the Ocean Cleanup vessels have removed more than a million pounds of trash from ...