Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletter to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists.The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest accumulation of plastic in the world,

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, or GPGP for short, isn't exactly what you might have heard. It's not a floating garbage land-mass twice the size of Texas that you can settle, even though it kind of already has its own currency (called Debris),

The cleanup cost is less than one month’s profit for Apple, the group’s founder says. An environmental group has announced an ambitious plan to eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2034 — as long as it gets $7.