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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Explained | Research | The Ocean Cleanup

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Explained

Models show that a full-scale cleanup could clean 50% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in just&nbsp;five years. After fleets of systems are deployed into every ocean gyre, combined with source reduction, The Ocean Cleanup projects to be able to remove 90% of ocean plastic by 2040.

The GPGP is a patch of rubbish and plastic located on the Pacific Ocean

The GPGP is the biggest of 5 ocean patches

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch contains 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch covers a distance of 1.6 million km squared

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The GPGP is roughly three times the size of France

The GPGP contains 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic, that's roughly 250 pieces of plastic for every person on the planet

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Sea Turtles often confuse plastic for Food like jellyfish.

Plastic accounts for around 76% of a sea turtles diet

1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals are effected each year

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The patch can vary over time depending on the time of year

The patch was found in 1997 by Charles Moore

To biodegrade plastic undergoes a process called photo-degradation,where it decays when exposed to sunlight then it breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces.

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It is located between Hawaii and California