And the biggest of them all is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. If you picked up each piece of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch you'd carry away about 1.8 trillion individual pieces.

There is no example more famous than the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a heap of trash roughly double the size of Texas that ...

You’ve probably heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is a massive area in the Pacific Ocean where plastic waste in all shapes and sizes tends to congregate. What you might not realize ...

to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Along the way she encounters scientists, celebrities, legislators and activists who shed light on what our society's ...

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