great pacific garbage patch
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Striking NASA Animation Reveals the Dirty Truth About Ocean Plastic
The world dumps some 8 billion kilograms of plastic into the ocean every year — and now, you can check out how all that trash moves around. NASA released an animation showing shifting plastic concentrations in the world’s oceans over an 18-month period, the first research of its kind to map plastics on such a…
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The Crazy Plan To Clean Up A Giant Island Of Garbage Might Actually Happen
An ambitious but controversial plan to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch moves closer to reality this week, with the deployment of an ocean plastic cleanup boom off the coast of the Netherlands in the North Sea.