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March 2 (UPI) --What are the odds that a piece of plastic blown into the surf end up into one of Earth's open-ocean garbage patches? Scientists in Germany and the United States have developed a new ...

Anika Albrecht of Ocean Voyages Institute, on a 2020 expedition collecting plastic in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, where she served as Chief Mate. (Photo courtesy of Ocean Voyages Institute ...

Investigators Analyze Plastic Soup in World’s Five Oceanic Gyres HAMILTON, Bermuda, February 1, 2010 (ENS) – Marine scientists set sail from Bermuda on Thursday to document the extent of plastic ...

The Dutch nonprofit group Ocean Cleanup hauled almost 64,000 pounds of plastic out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch after two and a half months of testing the latest iteration of its collection ...

Voyaging to the far reaches of the earth, 5 Gyres is dedicated to understanding plastic marine pollution through exploration, education and action. Welcome 5 Gyres Founders, Staff and Ambassadors, who ...

In the summer of 2021, researchers from the nonprofit 5 Gyres carried a crate filled with samples of plastic trash to a dock in Long Beach, California. Inside mesh bags were 22 different items (from ...

The world’s first plastic-neutral retailer builds on “Crafted with a Cause” seasonal product line with ongoing research partner to highlight growing microplastics health crisis “At Grove, we believe ...

When we dip our toes into the ocean, it's sometimes hard to tell what else is in the water. Researchers know we're sharing the waves with plastic debris and other trash. The 5 Gyres project studies ...

The 5 Gyres Institute is starting its annual initiative to track amounts of trash in National Parks. Any visitor to national parks can help by recording data about the trash they see in any U.S. park ...