garbage patch

It is all held on one place by swirling underwater currents and is known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch or "trash vortex" .

Traveling between Hawaii and California, Moore is said to be the first to document what became known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

In what is now known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, plastic outweighs plankton, by a factor of six to one.

How they got into the ocean is unclear but all these items wound up in what researchers are calling the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. . .

Pieces that don't wind up in Hawaii eventually cycle back into the Pacific garbage patch.

Jan Hafner says that by the time the trash arrives, it will turn into what he is calling "the North Pacific garbage patch. "

The newly described garbage patch sits hundreds of miles off the North American coast.

On Midway Island, which comes into contact with parts of the Eastern Garbage Patch, albatrosses give birth to 500, 000 chicks every year.

Moore contends that the term "garbage patch" is misleading and that it is more like "plastic soup. "

The plastic debris in the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" has killed millions of birds and other marine animals.

Indeed, a mass of floating trash, called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, has been observed in the northern part of the ocean.

The Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch floats between Hawaii and California.

The Western Garbage Patch forms east of Japan and west of Hawaii.

She is studying the now infamous garbage patch in the North Pacific gyre in the Pacific Ocean.

The Eastern Garbage Patch floats between Hawaii and California;