Today, scientists know that the patch is the result of a combination of ocean currents that corral tons of manmade trash into a vortex of sorts. It covers and absolutely huge area, comparable to ...

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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.

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 ...

With the organization’s technology, an area of the ocean the size of a football field is being cleaned every five seconds.

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 ...