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  2. 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 ...

  3. North Atlantic Gyre - 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. [22] 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 ...

  4. 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. [34] 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. Ocean gyre - Wikipedia

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    Like the North Pacific Gyre, the South Pacific Gyre has an elevated concentration of plastic waste near the center, termed the South Pacific garbage patch. Unlike the North Pacific garbage patch which was first described in 1988, [19] the South Pacific garbage patch was discovered much more recently in 2016 [24] (a testament to the extreme ...

  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. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is so large that tiny ...

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    Some 79,000 tonnes of plastic debris is swirling in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre between California and Hawaii The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is so large that tiny creatures are making it ...

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

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    The trash comes from countries around the Pacific Rim, such as nations in Asia as well as North and South America. ... Great Pacific Garbage Patch- 2018. Mega Expedition mothership; R/V Ocean ...

  9. Category:Marine garbage patches - Wikipedia

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    North Atlantic garbage patch; S. South Pacific garbage patch This page was last edited on 4 October 2021, at 23:12 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...