Charles Moore, an ocean researcher credited with discovering the Pacific garbage patch in 1997, said the Atlantic undoubtedly has comparable amounts of plastic. The east coast of the United States ...

The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from the world’s oceans and rivers. They even put a price tag on cleaning up the ...

The Great Pacific garbage patch is now bigger than ... Today, scientists know that the patch is the result of a combination of ocean currents that corral tons of manmade trash into a vortex ...

The region, located in the North Atlantic Ocean is called the Sargasso Sea ... dubbed the North Atlantic Garbage Patch. And yet, it remains a site of real ecological, historical and even cultural ...