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Great Ocean Garbage Patch

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While this is certainly the most talked about garbage patch it is not the only garbage patch in the ocean. There are four others on the planet. Plastic Ocean The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Biodiversity Reset Org These vortexes draw in plastics travelling on oceanic currents and hold them together in huge zones. Great ocean garbage patch . It is formed by trash and trash particles that found their way into the North Pacific Ocean and is the worlds largest collection of plastic in an ocean. The Western Garbage Patch located near. The Great Pacific Garbage patch is the biggest and sits in the north Pacific Ocean. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the result of a gyre - a large system of rotating ocean currents. Scientists of The Ocean Cleanup Foundation have conducted the most extensive analysis ever of this area. The Indian Oceans Great Disappearing Garbage Patch For better or worse oceanographic and meteorological forces in the Indian Ocean seem to be preventing plastic f