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What's in the patch? About 99% of everything in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is plastic. That equates to 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic present in 80,000 tons of garbage.

What makes the Great Pacific Garbage Patch so great? And I have to admit that while it is nothing like those other great world monuments, the Great Wall of China and the Great Barrier Reef.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is teeming with life A dynamic group of organisms, from star-like jellies to industrious snails, is thriving within the immense mass of floating debris.

The largest is the North Pacific Garbage Patch, known colloquially as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. These areas were long thought to have been uninhabited, the plastics and fishing gear too harmful ...

The largest is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. These areas were long thought to have been uninhabited, the plastics and fishing gear too harmful to marine life.

Scientists say one of the largest patches of pollution on the planet has become a substitute environment for dozens of species, generating questions about what this means for the ocean and the coast.