Great pacific garbage patch

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a vast area of plastic debris located in the Pacific Ocean. What is it made from? How did it get there? Here are 10 interesting facts about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Efforts are under way to clear the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Is that really a good idea, asks Andrew Kersley

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch Some of the plastic in the patch is over 50 years old, and includes items (and fragments of items) such as "plastic lighters, toothbrushes, water bottles, pens, baby bottles, cell phones, plastic bags, and nurdles." Research indicates that the patch is rapidly accumulating. The patch is believed to have increased "10-fold each decade" since 1945. A similar patch of floating plastic debris is found in…

Did you know that in this photo there are a predicted 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic? . This is the pacific garbage patch, now nearly three times the size of France it's a shocking sight. Created by ocean currents moving litter into one place it truly shows the plastic crisis. . We as consumers have the power to change this, we must consider the environmental impacts our purchases have and where the waste will end up? Together we can make a change! . . Don't forget to follow us @eco.cupboard…

Floating boom retains debris from Great Pacific Garbage Patch

World Oceans Day: Great Pacific Garbage Patch (infographic) - Belinda Ivey

Ocean garbage may be over twice as high as previous estimates, according to a recent study.

The Great Pacific garbage patch is a gyre of marine debris particles in the central northern part of the Pacific Ocean bounded by the mass...

Clowns and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Great Pacific Garbage Patch Infographic about garbage in the ocean. Created by second graders at an Expeditionary Learning School.

We are cleaning up ocean plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Learn more about the technology used and the cleanup progress here.

The 8th continent: Pacific Ocean garbage patch A zone of the Pacific Ocean larger than the U.S. has more plastic floating in it than sea life. It's an environmental disaster, and it's all our fault.

Pacific Garbage Patch Google Earth | Great Pacific Garbage Patch ...

Coastal plants and animals are thriving on the plastic debris, posing potential ecological risks

If you guessed the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” you’re right. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is also known as the largest landfill in the world, and unfortunately it is not found in a thoroughly…

The Ocean Cleanup has been focusing its efforts on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an enormous collection of marine debris in the North Pacific.

Titled Plastic Ocean in honor of Charlie Moore's book The traveling art show using plastics collected from the open-ocean and mid-ocean islands started out as just a simple idea. Take the image of the Japanese art, The Great Wave of Kanagawa, and add the plastics I've collected from my research to illustrate what is now a very different ocean than what Katsushika Hokusai saw when he created his art less than 200 years ago. Not a very long time in planet years for humans to have physically…

Scientists have found a plastic pollution garbage patch in Lake Erie that could be mores than the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.