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

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

The newest survey, which was conducted by The Ocean Cleanup Foundation ... Contrary to what many believe, the patch isn’t a garbage island, but rather a massive area of the Pacific that has ...

Did you know that there's a garbage patch twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean? What's more, this trash pool ...

There to cover Indonesian surfer Dede Suryana (above) in 2012, Noyle found himself literally swimming in a sea of garbage. “It was overwhelming,” he recalls. “I really thought we were going ...

Standing on the island's remote shoreline brings a ... Some 8 million tons of plastic trash leak into the ocean annually, and it's getting worse every year. Americans are said to use 2.5 million ...

Anything that can’t take its place on top of yesterday’s garbage is tossed to the side. There are no barriers to hold the refuse; the island simply vomits into the sea what it can’t contain.

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 ...

Discover what causes huge quantities of garbage to end up on the most remote islands in the world and ... man-made material that has ended up in the ocean and that is washed up on beaches.