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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. 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 ...

  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. 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. Converging low winds and ocean currents funnel marine debris into a ...

  6. 25,000 pounds of trash pulled from the Great Pacific Garbage ...

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    Floating trash pile between Hawaii and California estimated to be twice the size of Texas. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways ...

  7. 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 ]

  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. North Atlantic garbage patch - Wikipedia

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    The patch is located from 22°N to 38°N and its western and eastern boundaries are unclear. [5] The debris zone shifts by as much as 1,600 km (1,000 mi) north and south seasonally, and drifts even farther south during the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, according to the NOAA. [3]