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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They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

Plastic samples collected during the expedition in 2015 Credit: THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), a massive area of floating plastic debris that is more than ...

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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 ...

With plastic recovery operations now underway in the world’s marine garbage patches, scientists must contend with how little was known about the organisms living at the surface. Amanda was an ...

According to a study from the "Nature" journal published in 2022, the majority of the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch originates from five countries: Japan, China, South Korea ...