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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a huge mass of rubbish, or trash vortex, held in place in the north-east of the Pacific Ocean by swirling underwater currents. This build-up of marine debris is a danger to many marine mammals, birds and underwater ecosystems as a whole.VIDEOGRAPHIC
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