«The swirling mass of plastic soup in the Pacific Ocean, known by a handful of names — the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, North Pacific Gyre, Trash Vortex, and Plastic Graveyard among them — has been gaining notoriety lately, for all the wrong reasons. It’s ballooned to twice the size of the continental U.S., causing a variety of problems, but what does it really look like out there? This satellite photo is just the beginning; get up close and personal with the patch in the rest of the slideshow..»

Source: treehugger.com

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