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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an area of floating waste three times the size of France.
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8 February 2021
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an area of floating waste three times the size of France.
In the North Pacific, plastic waste dropped into ANY current eventually gets pulled into a vast, swirling mass called the trash vortex, or Great Pacific Garbage Patch. There are 4 other garbage patches like this around the world.

Find out more in:
100 Things to Know About the Oceans

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