The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from ...

For the past 35 years, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists have released buoys into the sea to track ocean current ... known major swirling patches of garbage.

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.

Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences ... All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great ...

Trash from all over the world collects in the world’s oceans. Eventually, most of it ends up in one of five known major swirling patches of garbage. These are known as the five gyres. For the ...