Studies have shown that the average person has around 6,000 thoughts per day, and that 95% of them are about themselves. Almost none of them are about garbage. OK, I made that last part up. But if you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk.

Rather than a dense, walkable mass, the patch is a vast region with elevated plastic concentrations.

At twice the size of Texas, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is continuing to grow, posing as a serious threat to the environment and ocean life. According to The Ocean Cleanup, an organization ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Floating in the middle of the ocean is a giant collection of trash and debris that's come to be known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The accumulation of plastics, cans and other ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a floating pile of trash located in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii. The GPGP spans 620,000 square miles, which is around three times the size of ...

In the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii, hundreds of miles from any major city, plastic bottles, children’s toys, broken electronics, abandoned fishing nets and millions more fragments of ...

(CNN) — Out in the Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and California, is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirl of plastic trash more than twice the size of Texas. As pieces of plastic tumble against ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Floating in the middle of the ocean is a giant collection of trash and debris that's come to be known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The accumulation of plastics, cans and ...