Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fun (well, not so fun, actually) fact: the largest accumulation zone of trash on earth is 1.6 million square meters. That’s the ...

That’s the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a vortex of swirling waste, debris, and plastic between the West Coast and Japan, festering. And to put that into perspective, it’s about the size of Alaska or ...