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  2. 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 ]

  3. 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 ...

  4. File:Garbage Patch Visualization Experiment.webm - Wikipedia

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

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  6. Indian Ocean garbage patch - Wikipedia

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    The Indian Ocean Garbage Patch on a continuous ocean map centered near the south pole. The Indian Ocean garbage patch, discovered in 2010, is a marine garbage patch, a gyre of marine litter, suspended in the upper water column of the central Indian Ocean, specifically the Indian Ocean Gyre, one of the five major oceanic gyres.

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

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    Converging low winds and ocean currents funnel marine debris into a central location, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). The trash comes from countries around the Pacific Rim, such ...

  8. 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.

  9. 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 Antarctic ...