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The growing garbage island polluting the Pacific Ocean
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so huge and permanent that a coastal ecosystem is thriving on it, scientists say
It’s a mistake to think of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch as an island of trash, though, Matthias Egger, the head of environmental and social affairs at The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit ...
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Ocean cleanup group removes record 25,000 pounds of trash from Great Pacific Garbage Patch in one extraction
MORE: 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' is massive floating island of plastic, now 3 times the size of France By the end of the month, The Ocean Cleanup will launch System 03, a larger version of its ...
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Visualising the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Over a thousand miles from land in the central North Pacific Ocean, the boat captain and ... and referred to as a trash island. However, contrary to popular belief, there is no surface on which ...
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A sacred area for native Hawaiians is filling up with trash. Crews are 'fighting the onslaught.'
Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument is a string of remote, uninhabited islands ... Pacific Garbage Patch, one of at least five patches of trash in the world's oceans, formed as ocean ...