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.

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 ...

Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be eliminated in 10 years, cleanup organization says. In their three years at sea, the Ocean Cleanup vessels have removed more than a million pounds of trash from ...

The Ocean Cleanup (TOC) project has announced the timeline and cost it would take to get the Great Pacific Garbage Patch cleaned up once and for all, using existing technology – 10 years and 7.5 ...

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 ...

2. We don’t have to see it. Located between California and Hawaii, and 1,000 miles from land, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was only discovered in 1997 by an oceanographer who knew what the ...

The Ocean Cleanup estimates that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch occupies 1.6 million square kilometers, about twice the size of Texas, or three times the size of France.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now flourishing with marine life. On Monday, scientists revealed that a diverse array of coastal species are thriving in a "floating community composition ...

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.

In 1997 Captain Charles Moore was sailing from Hawaii to California when he noticed a steady stream of plastics bobbing in the ocean. He had discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Now So Vast That Sea Creatures Have Turned It Into a Home. A study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution found 484 marine invertebrates accounting for 46 different ...