of fishing nets and consumer plastics from the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone (more commonly known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch or Gyre). The Pacific Gyre, located halfway ...

An estimated 100,000 tons of plastic is believed to be trapped by ocean currents in the North Pacific Gyre between California ... trawl of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, removing almost one ...

The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest accumulation of ...

And now that giant mass of garbage, carrying everything from ... spreads out eastward from the Japan Coast in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. In a year, the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands ...