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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so permanent and huge that living beings are migrating from thousands of miles away to get in on the plastic action.

Trashy

Life finds a way.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Teeming With Trash Life, Scientists Find

Nonprofit The Ocean Cleanup said their study found commercial fishing responsible for much of the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Plastic Problems

What do we do now?

The Overwhelming Amount of Plastic in the Ocean Isn't What You Think

A crew on board a ship belonging to the nonprofit Ocean Voyages Institute made an unusual discovery while sailing through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Garbage Pail

"We’ve really used the ocean as a garbage pail."

Researchers Scoop "Mysterious" Plastic Objects Out of Great Pacific Garbage Patch

A Dutch inventor has helped create a device, dubbed "Jenny," that has collected nearly 20,000lbs of plastic from the Pacific Ocean.  

Wash Up

But there are still concerns about its efficacy. 

Huge Machine Cleans Up Vast Load of Ocean Plastic

Scooped

"We estimate that the proceeds from just one pair of sunglasses will allow us to clean an area of 24 football fields worth of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch."

This Nonprofit Is Making Sunglasses Out of Recovered Ocean Waste

Architectural designer Honglin Li wants to build a floating skyscraper in the ocean to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Suck It Up

Put it right in the middle of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Wild Concept: Build Trash-Sucking Skyscrapers on Ocean Oil Rigs

The Ocean Cleanup is finally ready to put its plastic-wrangling boom to the test cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

It could finally put a dent in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Or, critics say, it could further harm marine wildlife.

A Huge Trap Is Ready to Start Gobbling Up Ocean Plastic "Like A Giant Pac-Man"

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