The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from the world’s oceans and rivers. They even put a price tag on cleaning up the ...

The plastic swirls in giant gyres in the open oceans, collecting in “garbage patches” (though concentrations are too low to resemble piles of trash). Most of the plastic is degraded into small ...

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 ...

As plastic waste continues to grow, so does the trash that's accumulating in the Pacific Ocean. Two huge floating islands of ...

The largest of these aggregations is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, within the North Pacific Gyre, a vortex of converging ... stress that groups such as The Ocean Cleanup that are invested in ...

Not to boast, but I have a Tampoon hiding somewhere in my myriad fishing tackle in my garage, basement, workshop, and boats.

Plus, once plastic is in the ocean, it accumulates in “giant circular currents” called gyres, which Slat said ... build-ups like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a giant collection of plastic ...

Want to help our national parks get even better? Here's how you can volunteer to keep them clean and take part in some ...