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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] The collection of plastic and floating trash originates from the Pacific Rim, including ...

  3. 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] The collection of plastic and floating trash originates from the Pacific Rim, including ...

  4. 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 ]

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. A project to remove 88,000 tons of plastic from the Pacific ...

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    An ambitious project to clean up the 88,000 tons of plastic floating in the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" has begun. On Sunday, the Ocean Cleanup Project started towing its "Ocean Cleanup System ...

  8. Project Kaisei - Wikipedia

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    Project Kaisei (from 海星, kaisei, "ocean planet" in Japanese [1]) is a scientific and commercial mission to study and clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a large body of floating plastic and marine debris trapped in the Pacific Ocean by the currents of the North Pacific Gyre. [2] Discovered by NOAA, and publicized by Captain Charles ...

  9. 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.