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.

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

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 ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest accumulation of plastic in the world, but one company says it can get rid of ...

A documentary about an all-female crew's journey through an area of ocean dubbed "the Great Pacific Garbage Patch" is set for release this month. Eleanor Church, 41, from Colchester, sailed with ...