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  2. Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Wikipedia

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    The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (also Pacific trash vortex and North Pacific Garbage Patch [1]) 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 . [ 2 ]

  3. 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]

  4. Floating island of garbage - Wikipedia

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    Floating island of garbage or island of floating trash, could refer to: Garbage patch, a collection of floating detritus formed from trash coming together in a mass in the ocean becoming like an island Great Pacific Garbage Patch; Thilafushi (Dhivehi: ތިލަފުށި), Maldives; an artificial island created as a landfill trash dump; so ...

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

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    For the record: 3:54 p.m. Sept. 7, 2024: A previous version of this article said that Ocean Cleanup vessels had removed more than a million tons of trash in three years.The amount was a million pounds

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

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    A massive collection of plastic and floating trash continues to expand in a region halfway between Hawaii and California. Earth's biggest cluster of ocean trash, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ...

  7. Over 63,000 pounds of trash removed from Great Pacific ... - AOL

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    The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one of several areas in the ocean that holds massive amounts of debris. Over 63,000 pounds of trash removed from Great Pacific Garbage Patch Skip to main content

  8. South Pacific garbage patch - Wikipedia

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    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. This area is in the South Pacific Gyre , which itself spans from waters east of Australia to the South American continent, as far north as the Equator , and south until reaching the ...

  9. 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 ...