In 2009, the Guardian reported that the island covered 124 acres, and was growing at an alarming rate of one square meter each day. As of 2021, as much as 772 tons (700 tonnes) of trash were added ...

An undated handout photo made available by The Ocean Cleanup on March 23, 2018 shows plastic samples that were pulled out of the ocean at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), located between ...

The choice the world has made . We took a boat out from the island, ... Stopping this flow of trash would require an incredible change in the daily behavior of 7 billion people.

For instance, the team has discovered a "trash island" more than 50 feet (15 meters) long, with "beaches," a "rocky coastline," and "underwater mountains" and reefs made up of ropes, buoys and ...

Easter Island off the coast of Chile has a major trash problem. It’s near what’s known as a “trash vortex” in the middle of the South Pacific and floating waste is constantly washing ashore.

LONDON, England (CNN)-- Garbage dumps are generally not associated with thriving coral reefs, vast mangrove plantations and rare bird species. Yet on Pulau Semakau off Singapore, this is exactly ...

Have you ever been to the beach? Was there trash on the sand? Well, then you should hear about an island in the Pacific Ocean that is made of trash and is twice the size of Texas. This island was ...

Since the ancient Aztecs geoengineered the shoreline of Tenochtitlan, their island capital that became Mexico City, humans have raised land from the water. Here are 18 of the world's strangest ...

Migrant Workers Handle Trash. The island also represents an environmental justice issue. Bangladeshi and Indian migrant workers are mostly responsible for sorting valuable materials out of the ...

The choice the world has made . We took a boat out from the island, ... Stopping this flow of trash would require an incredible change in the daily behavior of 7 billion people.