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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
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Rotating garbage island bigger than many countries is floating in Pacific: This 1.6 million sq km patch contains 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic & is causing serious harm to nature

Imagine an area of ocean stretching across about 1.6 million square kilometres, filled with fishing nets, ropes, buoys, plastic fragments and countless tiny pieces of microplastic.

This is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch , one of the world's most well-known marine pollution hotspots.

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