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A giant trash vortex's growing in the ocean. Now a cleanup effort's underway.
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The giant garbage vortex in the Pacific Ocean is over twice the size of Texas - here's what it looks like
There might be more than 16 times as much plastic in the vortex than previous studies have estimated, according to the Ocean Cleanup researchers. An aerial view of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ...
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Lesson Plan: Debris Dilemmas
The North Pacific Gyre is a swirling vortex of water made up ... the nickname “the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” Most of the marine debris in the ocean is not biodegradable.
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The 25-year-old trying to rid the world's oceans of plastic just created a floating garbage truck that collects trash from rivers
The largest of these vortexes, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is located in Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and California. It's estimated to contain more than 1.8 trillion pieces of floating ...
National Geographic news1mon
Ocean trash is building up. This artist reveals what’s out there.
He started building and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution. Eventually he began to gather the detritus to use as his art materials, cleaning a ...
Men's Journal5y
Long-Distance Swimmer Ben Lecomte Swam 338 Nautical Miles Through the Pacific Garbage Patch for Science
He, along with a crew of nine, lived aboard the sailboat I Am Ocean and traveled through the garbage patch, also called the “plastic vortex,” to raise awareness around plastic pollution and ...