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Pacific Garbage Patch gathering place for life thanks to currents | University of Hawaiʻi System News

The North Pacific “Garbage Patch” aggregates an abundance of floating sea creatures, as well as the plastic waste according to a UH study.

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Five Tons of Marine Debris Removed from Kaho olawe – Outdoor News Daily

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90% of plastic waste in the North Pacific Garbage Patch largely comes from 5 countries

According to research, 90% of the thousands of tonnes of plastic waste that form the North Pacific Garbage Patch (NPGP) comes largely from fishing equipment originating from five industrialised nations.

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Plastic waste in the Pacific could mostly come from a handful of nations

According to a recent study published in Scientific Reports, 90% of the thousands of tonnes of plastic waste that form what’s known as the North Pacific Garbage Patch – a huge pile of floating trash that covers an area of 3.5 million square km in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean could come largely from fishing equipment originating from five industrialized nations. Researchers from the Ocean Cleanup project and Wageningen University in the Netherlands collected 6,093 pieces of trash.

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Study: More than three-fourths of PLASTIC in Pacific Garbage Patch came from Chinese, Japanese fishermen

More than 75 percent of plastic found in the North Pacific Garbage Patch (NPGP) are discarded fishing equipment from Japan and China, according to a Dutch non-profit. In a Sept. 1 study, The [.]

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