The so-called “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” has now become so vast and permanent that a diverse range of species have taken up residence within it, according to new findings. Every year between 1.15 ...

Scientists have found that the massive swirl of plastic waste known as the ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ has increased a hundredfold since the early 1970s, which could spell major changes for ...

The 'gyre' is made up of bottles, containers, fishing nets and micro-particles which harm animals AN enormous floating dump of plastic waste in the Pacific ocean is now bigger than France, Germany and ...

A giant rubbish tip made up of thousands of pieces of plastic has been found floating in the Atlantic Ocean. The large dump is north of the Caribbean and is a similar in volume to the 'great Pacific ...