Great Pacific garbage patch
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The Great Pacific garbage patch, also described as the Pacific trash vortex, is a gyre of marine debris particles in the central North Pacific Ocean located roughly between 135°W to 155°W and 35°N and 42°N.
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See also
- Indian Ocean garbage patch
- North Atlantic garbage patch
- Ecosystem of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre
- Marine debris
- Plastic particle water pollution
- The blob (Chukchi Sea algae)
- Plastisphere
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