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  2. Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Wikipedia

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    While "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" is a term often used by the media, it does not paint an accurate picture of the marine debris problem in the North Pacific Ocean. The name "Pacific Garbage Patch" has led many to believe that this area is a large and continuous patch of easily visible marine debris items such as bottles and other litter ...

  3. South Pacific garbage patch - Wikipedia

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    Map of ocean currents circa 1943 This photo demonstrates the dispersal of plastic fragments of various sizes Visualization of the flow pattern of ocean pollutants. 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.

  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. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is up to 16 times more ... - AOL

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    The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), a massive area of floating plastic debris that is more than twice the size of Texas, contains about 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic. This is between 4 and 16 ...

  6. How much trash is in the ocean? - AOL

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    The Great Pacific garbage patch is a collection of solid hunks of garbage that have actually formed sizable 'islands'! Anthony from DNews investigates what we do know about the pollution problems ...

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

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    Great Pacific Garbage Patch- 2018. Mega Expedition mothership; R/V Ocean Starr crew pulling a ghost net from the Pacific Ocean, 2015. (The Ocean Cleanup) GPGP 2018.

  8. Charles J. Moore - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be eliminated in 10 years ...

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    After three years extracting plastic waste from the notorious Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an environmental nonprofit says it can finish the job within a decade, with a price tag of several ...