The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from ...

Boylan Slat, founder of The Ocean Cleanup, said 1% of the world’s rivers are responsible for about 80% of ocean pollution.

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 ...

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

Working from an Edgewater lab, Linsey Haram studies the role plastic pollution plays in transporting creatures on the ocean ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), a massive area of floating ... the researchers pointed to Asia as a main source of plastic pollution for the GPGP, particularly Japan and China, though ...

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.

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Charles Moore, an ocean researcher credited with discovering the Pacific garbage patch in 1997, said the Atlantic undoubtedly has comparable amounts of plastic. The east coast of the United States ...

"Plastic Paradise" is an independent documentary ... to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Along the way she encounters scientists, celebrities, legislators ...

Marine plastic pollution hence involves equity concerns… In addition ... designed to tackle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. On May 11, 2017, Slat’s organisation, the Ocean Cleanup, unveiled a new ...

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 ...