TheOcean Cleanup estimatesthat 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 spanaround 620,000 square miles. However, the actual size of the island of trash is unknown...
Plastic has acutely affected albatrosses that roam a wide swath of the northern Pacific Ocean. Albatrosses frequently grab food wherever they can find it, which leads to many of the birds ingesting — and dying from — plastic and other trash. On Midway Island, which comes into ...
Plastic has acutely affected albatrosses that roam a wide swath of the northern Pacific Ocean. Albatrosses frequently grab food wherever they can find it, which leads to many of the birds ingesting — and dying from — plastic and other trash. On Midway Island, which comes into contact ...
Ocean plastic can persist in sea surface waters, eventually accumulating in remote areas of the world’s oceans. Here we characterise and quantify a major ocean plastic accumulation zone formed in subtropical waters between California and Hawaii: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). Our model, ...
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is difficult to spot with the naked eye — much of the "patch" is a collection of tiny fragments of plastic gathered by ocean currents called gyres. Other parts of the trash raft have items that are easier to see, like buoys, nets and even fishing vessels...
The garbage patch is an enormous gyre of debris roughly twice the size of Texas state, whirled into shape by the water currents of the Northern Pacific. It’s also called the Pacific trash vortex. The world has five such masses. This specific one—the largest of them all—was first docume...
I give a lot of public talks aboutmy researchon plastic trash in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, and after every talk, someone comes up to me and says “Wow! I really thought there was an island!” (Well, in one memorable instance, a woman came up to me and said, “YOU MEAN ...
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Pacific Trash Vortex is a gyre of marine litter in the central North Pacific Ocean located roughly between 135° to 155°W and 35° to 42°N. Although many scientists suggest that the patch extends over a very wide area, with ...
What is the great pacific garbage patch? The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is the largest of the five offshore plastic accumulation zones in the world’s oceans. It is located halfway between Hawaii and California. PLASTIC ACCUMULATION ...
The patch is bounded by an enormous gyre –the biggest of five huge, spinning circular currents in the world’s oceans that pull trash towards the center and trap it there, creating a garbage vortex. It’s a mistake to think of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch as an island of trash, ...