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 ...

This vast ocean dump is a by-product of one of ... the majority of the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch originates from five countries: Japan, China, South Korea, the United States ...

After three years extracting plastic waste from the notorious Great Pacific Garbage Patch ... In addition to removing trash ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one of the most polluted areas of the ocean. 22-year-old Boyan Slat has a potential cleanup solution. The Ocean Cleanup uses a boom to capture plastic and keep ...

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 ...

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Plastic is the most prevalent marine pollutant, and plastic surfaces are the fastest growing habitat in the ocean.

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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 ...

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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 ...