Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk.

For years, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was described primarily as a remote accumulation zone of floating plastic debris. Located within the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, this region gathers ...

Rather than a dense, walkable mass, the patch is a vast region with elevated plastic concentrations.

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