An ocean cleaning prototype from System 001/B, capturing plastic debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ... The results show that within the trash vortex, the mass concentration of plastic ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, around 1,200 miles from shore, sits a giant vortex of trash known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The site is home to more than 1.8 trillion pieces of ...

He was part of the team which discovered the first ocean "garbage patch" in the North Pacific gyre in 1997 ... and fed into estimates of global microplastic distribution. Although scientists ...

The study examined plastic items more than 5cm (2in) in diameter gathered from a gyre - an area where circulating currents cause floating debris to accumulate - in the Pacific. Lead researcher Dr ...

This year, he decided to plow through a swirling vortex of garbage between Hawaii and California known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. "I'm not trying to go for any record," Lecomte told ...

is stuck in an oceanic vortex of plastic. According to municipal data from Rapa Nui, the island's local name, it receives around 50 times more plastic and microplastic than the coasts of Chile. This ...