Ocean 'Garbage Patch' Grows -- Experts Alarmed (AP)

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The sheer quantity of plastic that accumulates in the North Pacific Gyre, a vortex formed by ocean and wind currents and located 1,000 miles off the California coast, has scientists worried about how it might harm. (Mario Aguilera / Scripps Institution of Oceanogra)
Three-week Pacific voyage highlights ‘shocking’ amount of plastic debris.

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