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  2. 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.

  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. 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. 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 ]

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

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    A massive collection of plastic and floating trash continues to expand in a region halfway between Hawaii and California. Earth's biggest cluster of ocean trash, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ...

  7. How much trash is in the ocean? - AOL

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    Merchants vessels alone dump 5.5 million containers of trash every day. Coastal sewage systems also contribute to the problem. It takes about 500 years for plastic to photo-degrade completely in ...

  8. South Pacific garbage patch - Wikipedia

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    The South Pacific garbage patch is an area of ocean with increased levels of marine debris and plastic particle pollution, within the ocean's pelagic zone. This area is in the South Pacific Gyre , which itself spans from waters east of Australia to the South American continent, as far north as the Equator , and south until reaching the ...

  9. This video shows how garbage moves across the ocean - AOL

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    NASA Scientific Visualization Studio is an incredible resource where you can find incredibly interesting videos of very complex scientific phenomena broken down in a simple visual representation.