The Eastern Island is now littered with tiny fragments ... At least 8 million tons of plastic enters our oceans each year - that's one garbage truck a minute. More than 5 trillion pieces of ...

In fact, so much has amalgamated in the Pacific Ocean that a new island has been born, made of an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) has an estimated ...

PHUKET, Thailand, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Plastic bottles and empty beer cans roll on the sea floor in the waters around Phuket in southern Thailand, while ever more garbage piles up on the island ...