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  2. 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 ]

  3. 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. [39] 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 ...

  4. North Atlantic garbage patch - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. North Pacific Gyre - Wikipedia

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    By the end of 2024, the Ocean Cleanup had removed more than one million pounds of trash from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, or 0.5% of the total accumulated trash. [14] While microplastics dominate the area by count, 92% of the mass of the patch consists of larger objects which have not yet fragmented into microplastics.

  7. 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.

  8. Opinion - The US should help the world get the plastics ... - AOL

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    New research shows that one of these infamous trash whirlpools at sea — the North Pacific Garbage Patch — is growing even larger, threatening both marine life and, increasingly, human health.

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

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    Earth's biggest cluster of ocean trash, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is now 3 times the size of France. amanda.schmidt. March 30, 2018 at 8:12 AM. ... Great Pacific Garbage Patch- 2018.