Floating in the North Pacific Ocean is a mountain of waste the size of France. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of two masses of rubbish between the US and Japan and contains everything from ...

There is no “garbage mountain” in the middle of the ocean, says McWhirter, who has since left the sciences. Rather, “they’re dispersed, and there are clusters of items,” with abundances of neuston and ...

Roughly eight million tons of plastic enters the ocean every year. That’s according to a 2015 report, which also identified where the bulk of this trash originates. At the top of the list ...

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is just one of many found across the globe. Efforts to ...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- Crews who helped build the Newport Bay trash interceptor say it has collected about a dozen dumpsters full of debris and trash since the start of its testing phase ...

“Trash and debris flowing into the ocean is a threat to marine life and ... when it’s raining up the mountain, that can result in large flash floods or just really strong water flow and ...

which have a huge impact on our ocean environment and the estuary and park spaces downstream,” he said. “The trash actually blocks passage of horses across the trails, mountain bikers in the ...

There are no ocean trash deniers, at least so far ... They were born on Smokey Mountain, an internationally notorious dump that was officially closed in the 1990s. They now live with their ...