PHOTOS: Giant Ocean-Trash Vortex Documented--A First

Tuesday, September 8, 2009 - 14:35 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Twice the size of Texas, the remote Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch is home to much of the world's plastic trash, and now a scientific expedition has documented the vast "dump" for the first time.

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