Here’s some wonderful news about that mass of human trash floating around in the Pacific Ocean. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which Blippitt first told you about here, is now the size of the state of Texas and has increased a hundredfold since the early 1970s, according to a new study. The “patch” can be described [...]

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A group of scientists will set sail from San Francisco on Tuesday to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a gigantic mass of floating plastic trash, estimated by some to be double the size of the state of Texas. The team hopes to do more research on one of the most polluted locations on earth. The [...]

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