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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so huge and permanent that a coastal ecosystem is thriving on it | CNN
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This New Installation Pulled 20,000 Pounds of Plastic From the Great Pacific Garbage Patch | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
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Great Pacific Garbage Patch: There Is an Island of Trash Twice the Size of Texas Floating in the Ocean
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Great Pacific Garbage Patch weighs more than 43,000 cars and is much larger than we thought | PBS NewsHour
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