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    The Great Pacific Garbage Patch counts 1.8 trillion pieces of trash, mostly plastic

    by Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times Mar 22, 2018 3 minutes

    The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is getting greater. Twice the size of Texas, the floating mass is up to 16 times larger than previously thought - carrying about 79,000 metric tons of plastic - according to scientists who performed an aerial survey.

    The discovery, published in the journal Scientific Reports, reveals that this plastic blight in the Pacific Ocean is still growing at what the researchers called an "exponential" pace.

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