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  2. Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Wikipedia

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    The North Pacific Garbage Patch on a continuous ocean map. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch formed gradually as a result of ocean or marine pollution gathered by ocean currents. [37] It occupies a relatively stationary region of the North Pacific Ocean bounded by the North Pacific Gyre in the horse latitudes. The gyre's rotational pattern draws ...

  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 ]

  4. 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.

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

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    The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch nonprofit organization, has projected that the blight on the world's largest ocean could be removed within a decade and for around $7.5 billion.

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

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    The GPGP is the largest of five offshore plastic accumulation zones in the world's oceans, according to the Ocean Cleanup Foundation. ... Great Pacific Garbage Patch- 2018.

  8. North Pacific Gyre - Wikipedia

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    Research indicates that the patch is rapidly accumulating. [13] The patch is believed to have increased "10-fold each decade" since 1945. [15] The gyre contains approximately six pounds of plastic for every pound of plankton. [16] A similar patch of floating plastic debris is found in the Atlantic Ocean, called the North Atlantic garbage patch.

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