Oceans of plastic The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is twice the size of Texas, is the largest accumulation of ocean plastic in the world.

He wondered whether a plastic garbage can, modified to the same specs and sunk 15 inches in the ground, would last much longer than a metal can. I agreed it might, but wasn't sure it would be as ...

The Ocean Cleanup, the group behind the device, thinks 10 such installations could clean 50% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in five years.

Engineers will deploy a trash collection device to corral plastic litter in an attempt to clean up the world's largest garbage patch in the heart of the Pacific.

A photograph genuinely shows two women in the 1930s wearing plastic, cone-shaped face masks to protect their faces in a snowstorm.

The Rotterdam, Netherlands-based nonprofit group Ocean Cleanup has brought ashore its first haul, 60 tote bags of plastic it scooped from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

The bulk of large plastic bits in the North Pacific garbage patch have been lost or discarded by fishing vessels.