Sentence examples for floating trash from inspiring English sources
The Ocean Cleanup project, founded in 2013 by an 18-year-old Dutch inventor, aims to use a floating buoy system to collect floating trash in ocean gyres.
The students slipped past some floating trash.
The pier was already skirted by floating trash.
Ocean acidification, warming marine temperatures, mega-cyclones and a Texas-size gyre of floating trash imperil the region's marine life.
Newspapers and magazines published photos of floating trash and nicknamed the area the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Throughout the voyage, he will film such horrors as the Eastern Garbage Patch, an "island" of floating trash twice the size of Texas, for his Web site.
A push by Dell and Adrian Grenier to raise awareness of ocean problems while trying to find a use for floating plastic trash.
A highlight of the trip, which de Rothschild hopes will begin in July and, if all goes well, end four months later, will be a visit to a huge region of floating plastic trash and particles, known as the Eastern Garbage Patch.
"Our findings show that the garbage patches in the middle of the five subtropical gyres are not the final resting places for the world's floating plastic trash," said Marcus Eriksen, another of the report's co-authors.
LINDSEY HOSHAW, a freelance journalist in Palo Alto, Calif., hopes to sell a multimedia slide show and maybe an article to The Times about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a mass of floating plastic trash caught in swirling currents in a stretch of ocean twice the size of Texas.
Much floating plastic trash does not biodegrade, instead disintegrating over time and eventually breaking down to the molecular level.
