Unfortunately, plastic is so durable that the EPA reports “every bit of plastic ever made still exists.” All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one ...

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

The name 5 Gyres refers to the 5 ocean circulation systems in subtropical regions that accumulate plastic pollution. Its mission is to conduct research and communicate about the global impact of ...

With the organization’s technology, an area of the ocean the size of a football field is being cleaned every five seconds.

The plastic garbage, on the other hand, had a relatively effortless journey to Henderson. The island sits near the center of the South Pacific Gyre, an ocean current that sweeps up debris carried ...

As plastic waste continues to grow, so does the trash that's accumulating in the Pacific Ocean. Two huge floating islands of ...

North and South Atlantic and Indian Ocean. In the middle of these gyres, plastic trash has accumulated into huge “garbage patches” that act as “giant blenders - shredders that eviscerate ...

The largest of these aggregations is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, within the North Pacific Gyre, a vortex of converging ... stress that groups such as The Ocean Cleanup that are invested in ...

The North Pacific Gyre is a swirling vortex of water ... Most of the marine debris in the ocean is not biodegradable. Plastic, instead of biodegrading, photodegrades—it breaks up into smaller ...

And the 5 Gyres Institute is kicking off its fourth annual Plastic-Free Parks TrashBlitz project to do just that. The community science initiative's mission is to track pollution trends in the U.S ...

Celia Konowe is originally from Reston, VA and earned her bachelor's degree in... July 7, 2020 Fishing nets and debris being removed from the North Pacific Gyre by ...