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

There might be more than 16 times as much plastic in the vortex than previous studies have estimated, according to the Ocean Cleanup researchers. An aerial view of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ...

That swath of water is home to the Great Pacific Garbage ... aboard the sailboat I Am Ocean and traveled through the garbage patch, also called the “plastic vortex,” to raise awareness around ...

The North Pacific Gyre is a swirling vortex of water made up of four ... Most of the marine debris in the ocean is not biodegradable. Plastic, instead of biodegrading, photodegrades—it breaks ...

Founder Boyan Slat wants to clean plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a vortex of trash in the North Pacific Ocean that is more than three times the size of Spain. The Ocean Cleanup says ...

including the formation of the infamous “7th continent” – a massive accumulation of plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean. The scale of this pollution is alarming : ・Two-thirds of plastic ...