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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 ]

  3. Floating island of garbage - Wikipedia

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    Floating island of garbage or island of floating trash, could refer to: Garbage patch, a collection of floating detritus formed from trash coming together in a mass in the ocean becoming like an island Great Pacific Garbage Patch; Thilafushi (Dhivehi: ތިލަފުށި), Maldives; an artificial island created as a landfill trash dump; so ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. An 'island has emerged': Coastal species discovered thriving ...

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    Coastal marine species carried out to sea on debris are not only surviving, they’re colonizing the high seas and making new communities on the floating plastic

  6. MAGA comedian Tony Hinchcliffe stirs outrage with crude ... - AOL

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    Hinchcliffe joked that Puerto Rico is a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean.” AP Photo/Evan Vucci “You have some a—hole calling Puerto Rico ‘floating garbage,’ know ...

  7. The World’s Biggest Floating Garbage Dump Is Now ... - AOL

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    The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now estimated to cover 1.6 million square kilometers. Skip to main content. News. 24/7 help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways ...

  8. North Atlantic garbage patch - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 February 2025. Large floating field of debris in the North Atlantic Ocean The North Atlantic Gyre is one of five major ocean gyres. 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. A 22-year ...

  9. 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]