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The Great Pacific garbage patch (also Pacific trash vortex and North Pacific garbage patch [1]) 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. [2] The collection of plastic and floating trash originates from the Pacific Rim, including ...
The Great Pacific garbage patch (also Pacific trash vortex and North Pacific garbage patch [9]) 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. [10] The collection of plastic and floating trash originates from the Pacific Rim, including ...
In September and October 2016, The Ocean Cleanup launched the Aerial Expedition, in which a C-130 Hercules aircraft conducted the first ever series of aerial surveys to map the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The goal was specifically to quantify the amount of large debris, including ghost nets in the patch.
Earth's biggest cluster of ocean trash, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is now 3 times the size of France. ... while the aerial sensors scanned more than 300 kilometers of ocean surface.
The North Pacific Gyre (NPG) or North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (NPSG), located in the northern Pacific Ocean, is one of the five major oceanic gyres. This gyre covers most of the northern Pacific Ocean. It is the largest ecosystem on Earth, located between the equator and 50° N latitude, and comprising 20 million square kilometers. [1]
Film lifts lid on Great Pacific Garbage Patch voyage. A documentary about an all-female crew's journey through an area of ocean dubbed "the Great Pacific Garbage Patch" is set for release this ...
Some 79,000 tonnes of plastic debris is swirling in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre between California and Hawaii The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is so large that tiny creatures are making it ...
garbagepatchstate .org. The Garbage Patch State – Wasteland is an ongoing transmedia, environmental artwork by Maria Cristina Finucci. The project aims to raise awareness about the environmental hazard of the Great Pacific garbage patch caused by the dispersion of plastic debris in the oceans. Installations, performances, and videos have been ...