Ocean garbage patch

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a vast area of plastic debris located in the Pacific Ocean. What is it made from? How did it get there? Here are 10 interesting facts about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch or the pacific trash vortex is a collection of marine debris (litter that ends up in the ocean, seas, and other large bodies of water) in the North Pacific Ocean. It includes two distinct collections of debris which are formed due to the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Read full article...

And that's a highly conservative estimate, say scientists.

If you guessed the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” you’re right. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is also known as the largest landfill in the world, and unfortunately it is not found in a thoroughly…

The Great Pacific garbage patch is a gyre of marine debris particles in the central northern part of the Pacific Ocean bounded by the mass...

The Ocean Cleanup begins cleaning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

The 8th continent: Pacific Ocean garbage patch A zone of the Pacific Ocean larger than the U.S. has more plastic floating in it than sea life. It's an environmental disaster, and it's all our fault.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch Some of the plastic in the patch is over 50 years old, and includes items (and fragments of items) such as "plastic lighters, toothbrushes, water bottles, pens, baby bottles, cell phones, plastic bags, and nurdles." Research indicates that the patch is rapidly accumulating. The patch is believed to have increased "10-fold each decade" since 1945. A similar patch of floating plastic debris is found in…

Efforts are under way to clear the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Is that really a good idea, asks Andrew Kersley

We are cleaning up ocean plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Learn more about the technology used and the cleanup progress here.

Did you know that in this photo there are a predicted 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic? . This is the pacific garbage patch, now nearly three times the size of France it's a shocking sight. Created by ocean currents moving litter into one place it truly shows the plastic crisis. . We as consumers have the power to change this, we must consider the environmental impacts our purchases have and where the waste will end up? Together we can make a change! . . Don't forget to follow us @eco.cupboard…

As our global population expands so too does the amount of trash we produce. A large portion of this trash then ends up in the world's oceans. These are not going to go away unless we do something about them to change!

Today, in Frontiers in Marine Science, The Ocean Cleanup published findings on the observed correlations between floating plastic and neuston in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). The relative distribution of neuston and floating plastic varies per species and is largely influenced by five factors: wind, currents, encounters with floating plastic objects, the organism’s ability to swim, and on the species ecology.

This needs to stop. Scientists estimate that there are 5.25 trillion bits of plastic debris in the oceans worldwide — that's more plastic pieces than stars in our galaxy! Awareness is the first step of change.

Titled Plastic Ocean in honor of Charlie Moore's book The traveling art show using plastics collected from the open-ocean and mid-ocean islands started out as just a simple idea. Take the image of the Japanese art, The Great Wave of Kanagawa, and add the plastics I've collected from my research to illustrate what is now a very different ocean than what Katsushika Hokusai saw when he created his art less than 200 years ago. Not a very long time in planet years for humans to have physically…

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World Oceans Day: Great Pacific Garbage Patch (infographic) - Belinda Ivey

Learn what 5 Gyres founder wants you to know about plastics in the ocean, lacing our life-giving waters with invisible, toxic plastic soup.

Just a small overlook of what some places in our oceans look like.