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Tag: North Pacific Gyre

  • Monday, May 14th 2012 - 05:08 UTC

    Huge garbage patch in north Pacific is creating changes in the ocean food web

    The great Pacific garbage patch is believed to have the size of the state of Texas

    In a part of the ocean known as the North Pacific Gyre, human-produced plastic has increased 100-fold over the past 40 years, according to a new study. This is the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is not an actual floating island of garbage, but which is filled with floating bits of plastic, often fingernail-sized, mostly from the US west coast and from the east coast of Asia.