It’s easy to find striking images of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP ... causing many to believe that these are islands of trash. Instead, the debris is spread across the surface of ...

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The Great Pacific ... particular area of the Pacific. Today, scientists know that the patch is the result of a combination of ocean currents that corral tons of manmade trash into a vortex of ...