How Big The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Really Is

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a collection of marine debris that are linked together by a system of swirling ocean currents. It is also known as the Pacific trash vortex.

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The amount of debris accumulate increases overtime because majority of the trash are non-biodegradable. Here’s an illustration on the size of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrPBYS5zzF8

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Eight million tons of plastic winds up into the world’s oceans every year, much of that accumulating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. That 80,000 tons of …

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrPBYS5zzF8

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