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  2. Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Wikipedia

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    Most debris consists of small plastic particles suspended at or just below the surface, evading detection by aircraft or satellite. Instead, the size of the patch is determined by sampling. The estimated size of the garbage patch is 1,600,000 square kilometres (620,000 sq mi) (about twice the size of Texas or three times the size of France). [50]

  3. Garbage patch - Wikipedia

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    The patch is believed to have increased "10-fold each decade" since 1945. [16] The gyre contains approximately six pounds of plastic for every pound of plankton. [17] A similar patch of floating plastic debris is found in the Atlantic Ocean, called the North Atlantic garbage patch.

  4. North Atlantic garbage patch - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 December 2024. Large floating field of debris in the North Atlantic Ocean The North Atlantic Gyre is one of five major ocean gyres. The North Atlantic garbage patch is a garbage patch of man-made marine debris found floating within the North Atlantic Gyre, originally documented in 1972. A 22-year ...

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

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    The fleet collected a total of 1.2 million plastic samples, while the aerial sensors scanned more than 300 kilometers of ocean surface. The team found that plastic pollution levels within the GPGP ...

  6. Ocean Cleanup removes 100,000kg of plastic from Pacific - AOL

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    It passed the milestone on Monday after lifting 108,526 kg of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Ocean Cleanup removes 100,000kg of plastic from Pacific Skip to main content

  7. 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 ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. 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.