The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (also Pacific trash vortex and North Pacific Garbage Patch) is a garbage patch, a gyre of marine debris particles, in the...
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A garbage patch is a gyre of marine debris particles caused by the effects of ocean currents and increasing plastic pollution by human populations. These...
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The North Atlantic garbage patch is a garbage patch of man-made marine debris found floating within the North Atlantic Gyre, originally documented in 1972...
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The Garbage Patch State – Wasteland is an ongoing transmedia, environmental artwork by Maria Cristina Finucci. The project aims to raise awareness about...
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The South Pacific garbage patch is an area of ocean with increased levels of marine debris and plastic particle pollution, within the ocean's pelagic...
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South Atlantic gyre The Indian Ocean garbage patch, discovered in 2010, is a marine garbage patch, a gyre of marine litter, suspended in the upper...
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North Pacific Gyre (section Garbage patch)
collection of human-created marine debris, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre and the much smaller North Pacific...
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South Pacific Gyre (section Garbage patch)
plastics, chemical sludge, and other debris known as the South Pacific garbage patch. Earth's trade winds and Coriolis force cause the ocean currents in...
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Marine plastic pollution (section Garbage patches)
Garbage Patch which has the highest density of marine debris and plastic. The Pacific Garbage patch has two mass buildups: the western garbage patch and...
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reach the ocean. Their initial focus was on the Pacific Ocean and its garbage patch, and extended to rivers in countries including Indonesia, Guatemala...
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artist, architect and designer based in Rome. She is the founder of the Garbage Patch State. Maria Cristina Finucci is an Italian architect and artist, born...
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North Atlantic Gyre (section Garbage patch)
marine debris in its natural garbage or flotsam patch, in the same way the North Pacific Gyre has the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. At the heart of the gyre...
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Indian Ocean Gyre (section Garbage patch)
South Atlantic gyre The Indian Ocean garbage patch, discovered in 2010, is a marine garbage patch, a gyre of marine litter, suspended in the upper...
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throughout the ocean. The fungus and bacteria are found in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is located in the Pacific Ocean, and it is a hub where plastic...
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South Pacific garbage patch. Unlike the North Pacific garbage patch which was first described in 1988, the South Pacific garbage patch was discovered...
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non-biodegradable plastic waste. The area contains the huge North Atlantic garbage patch. Several nations and nongovernmental organizations have united to protect...
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Marine debris (redirect from Ocean garbage)
capturing animals, concentration of plastic debris in massive marine garbage patches, and increasing concentrations of contaminants in the food chain. In...
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Charles J. Moore (section Great Pacific Garbage Patch)
for articles that recently brought attention to the 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch', an area of the Pacific Ocean strewn with floating plastic debris caught...
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this with fishing nets, saying they make up 46% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The fishing net statement derives from a 2018 study, which examines...
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Cabbage Patch Kids were inducted into The Strong National Museum of Play's Toy Hall of Fame. Garbage Pail Kids The Garbage Pail Kids Movie Garbage Pail Kids...
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widespread use. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a concentration of plastics in the North Pacific Gyre. It and other garbage patches contain debris that can transport...
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Pacific Garbage Patch between California and Japan is three times the size of France. An estimated 80,000 metric tons of plastic inhabit the patch, totaling...
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Floating island of garbage or island of floating trash, could refer to: Garbage patch, a collection of floating detritus formed from trash coming together...
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Coastal Current to the Arabian Sea from January to April. An Indian Ocean garbage patch was discovered in 2010 covering at least 5 million square kilometres...
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mass, similar to the North Atlantic garbage patch.[citation needed] Great Calcite Belt North Atlantic garbage patch López Miranda, José Luis; Celis, Lourdes...
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their lifetime. In 2009, scientists were studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area of floating plastic trash in the Pacific Ocean, and its effect...
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leakage. Microplastics could contribute up to 30% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch polluting the world's oceans and, in many developed countries, are a...
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Julia (9 April 2019). "Cetacean sightings within the Great Pacific Garbage Patch". Marine Biodiversity. 49 (4): 2021–2027. Bibcode:2019MarBd..49.2021G...
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(1975) and other films of the shark movie genre. Near the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, marine researcher Sophia Assalas and her team search for Lilith, a...
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washing aground where it is known as beach litter. The North Atlantic garbage patch is estimated to be hundreds of kilometers across in size. Other pollution...
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