What isn't the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Part 1 of 2

Marine Debris on Hawaiian coast; NOAA

If you travel out into the middle of ocean, thousands of miles from the closest continent, you’ll see a floating soup of plastic commonly referred to as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.  By some estimates, it’s twice the size of Texas. By others, it’s just really enormous. It swirls around in the middle of the ocean in what’s called a gyre, or an ocean current similar to a whirlpool.

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