Scientists map ocean currents to trap floating trash and plastic debris, improving cleanup efforts of the Great Pacific ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Marine debris is trash and other solid man-made material that has ended up in the ocean and that is washed up on beaches. Although some of it is waste from ships and seafaring activities ...

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 ...