In this visualization, they use the data from these buoys to show just how these garbage gyres form. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More from Science Trash from all over the world collects in ...

most of it ends up in one of five known major swirling patches of garbage. These are known as the five gyres. For the past 35 years, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists have ...

But the Pacific gyre, where three major ocean currents converge, acts like a giant whirlpool that can trap such debris, creating the ecological nightmare that is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

of fishing nets and consumer plastics from the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone (more commonly known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch or Gyre). The Pacific Gyre, located halfway ...

The 5 Gyres team analyzed over 8,000 pieces of trash at Yosemite Facelift. There were many everyday items that you might expect, such as plastic food wrappers and cigarette butts. However ...