The Great Pacific garbage patch (also Pacific trash vortex and North Pacific garbage patch) is a garbage patch, a gyre of marine debris particles, in the...

Pacific garbage patch located west of South America, and the Indian Ocean garbage patch found east of South Africa. The Great Pacific garbage patch (also...

efforts have been focused on the Great Pacific garbage patch, a similar garbage patch in the north Pacific. The patch is located from 22°N to 38°N and...

The South Pacific garbage patch is an area of ocean with increased levels of marine debris and plastic particle pollution, within the ocean's pelagic...

marine debris, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre and the much smaller North Pacific Subpolar Gyre make up the...

before it can reach the ocean. Their initial focus was on the Pacific Ocean and its garbage patch, and extended to rivers in countries including Indonesia...

North Pacific gyre South Pacific gyre South Atlantic         gyre The Indian Ocean garbage patch, discovered in 2010, is a marine garbage patch, a gyre...

floating in the north-east Pacific Ocean increased a hundredfold between 1972 and 2012. The ever-growing Great Pacific garbage patch between California and...

articles that recently brought attention to the 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch', an area of the Pacific Ocean strewn with floating plastic debris caught...

known of these is the Great Pacific garbage patch which has the highest density of marine debris and plastic. The Pacific Garbage patch has two mass buildups:...