A garbage sample is pulled out of the ocean at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), located between halfway between Hawaii and California, in a photo provided by The Ocean Cleanup on March 23 ...

The claim that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch covers "8.1 percent of the Pacific Ocean" is also a matter of debate. The number appeared to come from a 2008 quote from Marcus Eriksen, ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch weighs 87,000 tons -- 16 times more than previous estimates -- and contains more than 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic, according to a new analysis.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is getting greater. Twice the size of Texas, the floating mass of about 79,000 metric tons of plastic is up to 16 times larger than previously thought, ...

In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the water bottle could be from Los Angeles, the food container from Manila, and the plastic bag from Shanghai.

Synopsis: Between the state of California and Hawaiæi lies the great Pacific garbage patch. It is 1.6 million square ...

Eliminating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Most of the plastics are floating in the top several feet of the ocean. Therefore, The Ocean Cleanup focuses on eliminating plastic from this top layer.

The garbage patch off the Pacific coast of the United States is so large that it’s become its own thriving ecosystem. A team of researchers has discovered that coastal species, in addition to ...

At today’s level of performance, they could completely clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) in about a decade for a cost of $7.5 bn, but if they’re able to ramp up operations to higher ...

While studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, scientists found coastal species occurred on more than 70% of debris, according to a study published Monday in the Nature Ecology & Evolution journal.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a collection of floating trash, most of it plastic, halfway between Hawaii and California, covers more than 600,000 square miles, studies have shown.