Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Animals Are Using Rafts of Plastic Garbage to Colonize the Open Ocean

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Here’s Where All Your Plastic Ends Up

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By Harriet Renn
News

Good job, humans, you killed this whale

04.12.18

By Rex Santus
News

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has grown to twice the size of Texas

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By Alex Lubben
News

Inside the monumental effort to rid the world’s oceans of plastic

02.06.18

By Olivia Awad
Tech

These Plastic-Eating Machines Will Filter Our Junk From the Ocean

05.12.17

By Emma Griffith
Food

The Ocean Contains Less Food for You Than 50 Years Ago

10.12.15

By Wyatt Marshall
News

Nearly 300,000 Tons of Plastic is Floating in the World’s Oceans

12.11.14

By Katherine Tweed
Tech

We’re Looking for a Missing Plane and All We’ve Found Is Trash

04.07.14

By Jason Koebler

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