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  1. www.nationalgeographic.org › encyclopedia › great-pacific-garbage-patchGreat Pacific Garbage Patch - National Geographic Society

    10 de abr. de 2024 · The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean. Marine debris is litter that ends up in oceans, seas, and other large bodies of water. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also known as the Pacific trash vortex, spans waters from the West Coast of North America to Japan.

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  3. theoceancleanup.com › great-pacific-garbage-patchThe Great Pacific Garbage Patch | The Ocean Cleanup

    For example, sea turtles by-caught in fisheries operating within and around the patch can have up to 74% (by dry weight) of their diets composed of ocean plastics. Laysan albatross chicks from Kure Atoll and Oahu Island have around 45% of their wet mass composed of plastics from surface waters of the GPGP.

  4. www.nature.com › articles › s41598/018/22939-wEvidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly ... -...

    22 de mar. de 2018 · Ocean plastic can persist in sea surface waters, ... The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). ... and discarded fishing gear on marine turtles in northern Australia. Conserv. Biol. 29, 198 ...

  5. www.seeturtles.org › ocean-plasticOcean Plastic — SEE Turtles

    Sea turtles and other marine creatures mistake plastics and other garbage as food (such as jellyfish) and ingest it. This mistake causes blockages within their digestive system and eventual death. According to the US EPA, Americans use more than 380 billion plastic bags and wraps each year.

  6. www.cnn.com › 2023/05/05 › worldA surprising number of drifting sea creatures found living in the...

    5 de may. de 2023 · CNN —. Translucent, fragile marine creatures that drift through the sea are riding the motion of the ocean to a destination that’s infamous as a home for trash: the Great Pacific Garbage...

  7. www.bbc.com › article › 20220930-the-ocean-gyres-creating-huge-new-plastic-patchesThe secrets being revealed by ocean garbage patches - BBC

    The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an enormous agglomeration of plastic waste floating in the world's largest ocean, but it's not the only one and now scientists are trying to work out how to...

  8. eandt.theiet.org › 2021/08/02 › plastic-pollution-creating-evolutionary-trap-youngPlastic pollution creating ‘evolutionary trap’ for young sea...

    2 de ago. de 2021 · However, our results suggest that this evolved behaviour now leads them into a trap, bringing them into highly polluted areas such as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. "Juvenile sea turtles generally have no specialised diet – they eat anything and our study suggests this includes plastic.