In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer ...

Scientists map ocean currents to trap floating trash and plastic debris, improving cleanup efforts of the Great Pacific ...

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The newest survey, which was conducted by The Ocean Cleanup Foundation ... the patch isn’t a garbage island, but rather a massive area of the Pacific that has an incredibly high plastic density.

Standing on the island's remote shoreline brings ... miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you probably contribute to.

Floating in the North Pacific Ocean is a mountain of waste the size of France. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of two masses ... Designer Mario Kerkstra created the identity for the island, ...

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 ...

The term "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" refers to a massive area more than 1.6 million square kilometers in size, but it's just part of the North Pacific gyre, an ocean region where currents ...

Discover what causes huge quantities of garbage to end up on the most remote islands in the world and ... Much of the debris that ends up in the North Pacific Ocean gets drawn into the North ...

The island is in the Caribbean Sea, not the Pacific Ocean, therefore it cannot be part of the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Thus, the above social media posts have miscaptioned the photo. In a ...