All together, this mass of waste floating in the North Pacific Ocean is known as the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

In recent years, there have been growing concerns about the floating garbage and its effect on sea creatures and human health.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

In "Marina of the Zabbaleen" director Engi Wassef explores a group of Christian garbage collectors in Cairo called the Zabbaleen.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

They gathered hundreds of sea creatures and water samples to measure the garbage patch's effect on ocean environment.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

That was when racing boat captain and oceanographer Charles Moore and his crew sailed into the garbage while returning from a racing event.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

The waters surrounding the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch are known as the North Pacific Gyre.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

The documentary "Recycled Life" tells about people living in the garbage collection area in Guatemala City.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

Last month, a team from the University of California at San Diego became the latest group to travel to the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

The existence of the North Pacific Garbage Patch first gained public attention in nineteen ninety-seven.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

Experts say the garbage gets trapped in the currents for years before being pushed out.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

Many of those toys are now part of the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

The movie is about garbage and recycling but also about family,culture,and spirituality.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

Slow enough that garbage from all over the world collects there.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

The floating garbage also can have harmful effects on people.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

Bring the garbage back?" Now Dunn has a deal to use the land and several financial grants to support his vision.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

And while much of the countryside in the remote, largely undeveloped country remains pristine, garbage in the villages piles up almost unchecked.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Before hitting the rocks, climbers donned plastic gloves and garbage bags and sent trucks, loaded with about 400 bags to the local dump.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

They are learning how to identify biodegradable garbage, how to make compost, and how to water the trees they have planted in the schoolyard.

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Turtles choke on plastic bags and other garbage dumped into the ocean.

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

The Iraqiya coalition claims that ballots were found in garbage dumps.

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"There were vacant lots, a lot of trash,garbage here."

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"He was telling us, not only our family, but more and more the public, 'Don't use the ocean as a garbage can, as a universal sewer because it's a life support system.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

There is,however, and abundance of garbage.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

The house in Tecun Uman has been at the service of migrants for more than a dozen years, explains Ademar Barilli, a Catholic priest from Brazil, who supervised the construction of the house on the site of what was a city garbage dump.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Swan says his early mentors instilled in him a simple environmental ethic that has guided him through life: "That was that at the end of our expeditions, we would always leave wherever we went,clean and tidy, take away our garbage, take away everything, just leave our footsteps."

VOA: standard.2009.12.10