Great Pacific garbage patch
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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 central North Pacific Ocean. It is located roughly from 135°W to 155°W and 35°N to 42°N.
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See also
- Ecosystem of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre
- Indian Ocean garbage patch
- North Atlantic garbage patch
- Ocean Conservancy
- Plastisphere
- South Pacific garbage patch
- World Cleanup Day
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