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

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

Plastic pollution is a severe environmental issue, especially affecting our oceans. Each year, millions of tons of plastic ...

And the biggest of them all is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. If you picked up each piece of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch you'd carry away about 1.8 trillion individual pieces.

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