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Great Pacific Garbage Patch: a standalone construct

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Marine ecology

an ocean region between Hawaii and California where floating plastic accumulates rapidly, much of it fishing gear.

In marine ecology, Great Pacific Garbage Patch refers to an ocean region between Hawaii and California where floating plastic accumulates rapidly, much of it fishing gear. This meaning comes from Lebreton (2018) in Scientific Reports.[1]

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Lebreton, L., Slat, B., Ferrari, F., Sainte-Rose, B., Aitken, J., Marthouse, R., Hajbane, S., Cunsolo, S., Schwarz, A., Levivier, A., Noble, K., Debeljak, P., Maral, H., Schoeneich-Argent, R., Brambini, R., & Reisser, J. (2018). Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic. Scientific Reports, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-22939-w

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