The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Shocking images show the world's biggest ocean tip as clean-up intensifies at fungus-infested site more than twice the size of NSW By Laura Parnaby Published: 00:06 BST, 24 June 2024 | Updated: 00:20 BST, 24 June 2024 e-mail 16 View comments Shocking images have laid bare the world's biggest garbage dump - comprising 100,000 tonnes of everything from discarded fridges to children's toys. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch spans 1,605,000 square kilometres - an area more than twice the size of New South Wales - with the majority of rubbish coming from China , Japan , Korea and the US. The aquatic dump was first detected 1,900km west of California in 1997, and has since sprawled across the ocean - threatening marine life while releasing toxic microplastics into the atmosphere.
However, since 2019, the Ocean Cleanup nonprofit has been on a mission to change this through an $189million project aiming to conquer the disgusting mess over the next 10 years. 'We're taking it out of the ocean while we still can,' the charity's head of environmental and social affairs Matthias Egger told DailyMail.com.
Shocking drone footage has laid bare the world's biggest garbage dump from above - comprising 100,000 tonnes of rubbish. A whopping 80 percent of the rubbish is discarded fishing equipment from developed countries - mostly China, Korea, Japan and the US 'Sometimes you hear that plastic pollution comes from developing nations that lack the infrastructure to p.
