WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Old toothbrushes, beach toys and used condoms are part of a vast vortex of plastic trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, threatening sea creatures that get tangled in it, ...
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch stretches across 1.6 million square kilometers - twice the size of Texas, roughly 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic spinning in a slow, massive gyre. Architect Yufeng Tu ...