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  2. Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Wikipedia

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    The North Pacific Garbage Patch on a continuous ocean map. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch formed gradually as a result of ocean or marine pollution gathered by ocean currents. [37] It occupies a relatively stationary region of the North Pacific Ocean bounded by the North Pacific Gyre in the horse latitudes. The gyre's rotational pattern draws ...

  3. South Pacific garbage patch - Wikipedia

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    Map of ocean currents circa 1943 This photo demonstrates the dispersal of plastic fragments of various sizes Visualization of the flow pattern of ocean pollutants. The South Pacific garbage patch is an area of ocean with increased levels of marine debris and plastic particle pollution, within the ocean's pelagic zone.

  4. Garbage patch - Wikipedia

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    The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (also Pacific trash vortex and North Pacific Garbage Patch [9]) is a garbage patch, a gyre of marine debris particles, in the central North Pacific Ocean. It is located roughly from 135°W to 155°W and 35°N to 42°N. [10]

  5. How much trash is in the ocean? - AOL

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    The Great Pacific garbage patch is a collection of solid hunks of garbage that have actually formed sizable 'islands'! Anthony from DNews investigates what we do know about the pollution problems ...

  6. Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be eliminated in 10 years ...

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    The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch nonprofit organization, has projected that the blight on the world's largest ocean could be removed within a decade and for around $7.5 billion.

  7. What Is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? - AOL

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    What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? The name refers to a large area in the North Pacific Ocean packed with debris concentrated in various areas that have incredibly harmful effects to the ...

  8. North Pacific Gyre - Wikipedia

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    The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (also Pacific trash vortex and North Pacific Garbage Patch [8]) is a garbage patch, a gyre of marine debris particles, in the central North Pacific Ocean. It is located roughly from 135°W to 155°W and 35°N to 42°N . [ 9 ]

  9. Earth's biggest cluster of ocean trash, the Great Pacific ...

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    Great Pacific Garbage Patch- 2018. Mega Expedition mothership; R/V Ocean Starr crew pulling a ghost net from the Pacific Ocean, 2015. (The Ocean Cleanup) GPGP 2018.