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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: The Floating Islands of Trash Three Times the Size of France
Two huge floating islands of garbage are taking up hundreds of thousands of square miles of real estate in what's known as ...
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A giant trash vortex's growing in the ocean. Now a cleanup effort's underway.
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Could The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Be Eliminated In Five Years?
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest accumulation of plastic in the world, but one company says it can get rid of ...
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A 25-year-old's mission to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch relies on a giant plastic-cleaning device. Here's how it works.
but no collection of marine debris is quite as big as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a trash-filled vortex in the Pacific Ocean that's more than twice the size of Texas. The gyre is said to ...
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Lesson Plan: Debris Dilemmas
The North Pacific Gyre is a swirling vortex of water made up of four ... given the North Pacific Gyre the nickname “the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” Most of the marine debris in the ocean ...
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The massive plastic-cleaning device invented by a 25-year-old is finally catching trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
In 2013, Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit that aims to remove plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a trash-filled vortex in the Pacific Ocean that's more than twice the size of ...
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Pacific Ocean garbage patch is immense plastic habitat
The study examined plastic items more than 5cm (2in) in diameter gathered from a gyre - an area where circulating currents cause floating debris to accumulate - in the Pacific. Lead researcher Dr ...