The Great Pacific garbage patch is now bigger than ... Today, scientists know that the patch is the result of a combination of ocean currents that corral tons of manmade trash into a vortex ...

But don't let the name "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" fool you. It doesn't look like a giant mountain of trash at all. It's actually scattered over a region of ocean that's twice the size of Texas ...

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific ...

Charles Moore, an ocean researcher credited with discovering the Pacific garbage patch in 1997, said the Atlantic undoubtedly has comparable amounts of plastic. The east coast of the United States ...

For the past 35 years, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists have released buoys into the sea to track ocean current ... to show just how these garbage gyres form.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, located in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean, is becoming an ever more serious environmental problem. Studies carried out by The Ocean Cleanup organisation ...