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The Great Pacific garbage patch now has a South Pacific cousin

by Futures Centre, Jul 24
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Guess how many giant patches of garbage there are in the ocean now?

“We are living in a plastic age,” Captain Charles Moore tells PopSci. “We’re ignorant of its dangers, and we haven’t learned properly to fear or to respect it.” Moore, the founder and research director of the Algalita Marine Research and Education Foundation, is fresh off of a six-month excursion investigating plastic pollution in the South Pacific.

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