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Great Pacific Garbage Patch (Pacific Trash Vortex)
National Science Foundation suggests the affected area may be twice the size of Texas
• estimated 80% of the garbage comes from land-based sources · Charles Moore has estimated the mass of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch at 100 million tons.
found concentrations of plastic particles at 334,721 pieces per km2 (very small pieces after photodegredation)
⚫ killing a million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals each
year
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/5208645/Drowning-in-plastic-The-Great
Pacific-Garbage-Patch-is-twice-the-size-of-France.html
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