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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 ]
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 ]
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
Earth's biggest cluster of ocean trash, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is now 3 times the size of France. ... R/V Ocean Starr crew pulling a ghost net from the Pacific Ocean, 2015.
An ambitious project to clean up the 88,000 tons of plastic floating in the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" has begun. On Sunday, the Ocean Cleanup Project started towing its "Ocean Cleanup System ...
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 ]
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.
Moore is the founder of the Algalita Marine Research and Education [4] in Long Beach, California.. In 2008 the Foundation co-sponsored the JUNK Raft project, to "creatively raise awareness about plastic debris and pollution in the ocean", and specifically the Great Pacific Garbage Patch trapped in the North Pacific Gyre, by sailing 2,600 miles across the Pacific Ocean on a 30-foot-long (9.1 m ...