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View: The Truth about Trash
Images of the world's garbage and pollution problems
CLICK TO ENLARGE + George Retseck, SOURCES: GREENPEACE, CHARLES MOORE, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION
Trashed: For decades, circulating ocean currents have picked up refuse from shorelines and boats and corralled it in two vast lobes of decaying, soupy material dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
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