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The world's largest collection of ocean garbage is growing. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a collection of plastic, floating trash halfway between Hawaii and California, has grown to more than 600,000 square miles, a study found. That's twice the size of Texas. ... The patch is not a solid mass of plastic.Mar 22, 2018

Pacific garbage patch, largest collection of ocean trash, grows

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How Big Is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Science vs. Myth ...

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... in Texas, some reports about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch would lead you to believe that this marine mass of plastic is bigger than Texas—maybe twice as ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch | The Ocean Cleanup

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest accumulation of ocean plastic in ... kilometers, an area twice the size of Texas or three times the size of France.

300-Mile Swim Through The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Will ...

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May 30, 2019 — The Great Pacific Garbage Patch covers an area twice the size of Texas or ... The stronger, more buoyant plastics show resiliency in the marine ...

Great Pacific Garbage Patch | National Geographic Society

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Jul 5, 2019 — While many different types of trash enter the ocean, plastics make up the majority of marine debris for two reasons. First, plastic's durability, low ...

3 misconceptions about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ...

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Sep 9, 2019 — These tiny bits of broken-down plastics are pervasive and easily mistaken for food by marine animals. Myth #2: It's twice the size of Texas.

Great Pacific Garbage Patch study reveals far more plastic ...

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The giant garbage vortex in the Pacific Ocean is over twice the size of Texas — here's what it looks like. Kevin Loria. Sep 8, 2018, 2:46 PM. The letter F. An ...

Great Pacific garbage patch - Wikipedia

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The Great Pacific garbage patch, also described as the Pacific trash vortex is a garbage patch, ... A similar patch of floating plastic debris is found in the Atlantic Ocean, called the North Atlantic garbage patch. ... Estimates of size range from 700,000 square kilometres (270,000 sq mi) (about the size of Texas) to more than ...

How the Plastic Particles Called Nurdles Pollute Oceans - The ...

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Jul 5, 2019 — The Lost Nurdles Polluting Texas Beaches. Tiny plastic building blocks are spilled into oceans and waterways before they're even made into ...