In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

Barry Rosenthal started collecting plastic garbage on a New York shoreline ... He started building and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution.

This is the only way to ensure safe reuse and higher recycling rates. More information: Robby Rynek et al, Hotspots of Floating Plastic Particles across the North Pacific Ocean, Environmental ...

As it stands, existing technologies struggle to degrade plastic effectively ... a massive system of rotating ocean currents. This current system traps debris and waste, contributing to the nearby ...

With the equivalent of about 625,000 garbage trucks of plastic entering the ocean each year, finding ways to degrade these compounds is critical. Various microbes, including bacteria and ...

The Calypso Deep is located 60 kilometers west of the Peloponnese coast in Greece in a region of high seismic activity due to ...

Newswise)–Tiny bits of plastic found in the ocean may be tied to a higher risk of disability for people who live in coastal areas with high ...

but unfortunately our used plastic is getting into the ocean. It can end up causing all sorts of problems for sea life and marine mammals. But how does our plastic waste end up littering the ocean?