Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk.

At twice the size of Texas, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is continuing to grow, posing as a serious threat to the ...

The Maritime Museum of B.C. hopes a closer look at the largest accumulation of ocean plastics and human-made debris in the world will help change people's habits. A new exhibit called The Great ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not a solid island of rubbish, but a vast region of ocean where currents concentrate floating plastic into a soup of debris. It sits in the North Pacific Subtropical ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch spans 1.6 million square kilometres and weighs up to 88,000 tonnes Nearly half of the weight is abandoned fishing gear, with tsunami debris and consumer plastics also ...

Studies have shown that the average person has around 6,000 thoughts per day, and that 95% of them are about themselves. Almost none of them are about garbage. OK, I made that last part up. But if you ...

The giant mass of floating plastic trash in the Pacific Ocean, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, now measures almost 620,000 square miles and is as much as 16 times larger than previous ...

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There are now five garbage-filled gyres in the world's oceans the largest and most notorious being the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, with its estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic, spread across an ...

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. Over a thousand ...