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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 ]
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 North Atlantic garbage patch is a garbage patch of man-made marine debris found floating within the North Atlantic Gyre, originally documented in 1972. [1] A 22-year research study conducted by the Sea Education Association estimates the patch to be hundreds of kilometers across, with a density of more than 200,000 pieces of debris per ...
After three years extracting plastic waste from the notorious Great Pacific Garbage Patch, ... Twice the size of Texas, the mass of about 79,000 metric tons of plastic floating in the Pacific ...
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 ...
Their initial focus was on the Pacific Ocean and its garbage patch, and extended to rivers in countries including Indonesia, Guatemala, and the United States. The Ocean Cleanup was founded in 2013 by Boyan Slat , a Dutch inventor [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] who serves as its CEO.
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 ...
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