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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — When researchers traveled to a tiny, uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they were astonished to find an estimated 38 million pieces of trash washed ...

A garbage island made of 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic spread across nearly 618,000 square miles and weighing 100,000 tonnes is floating in the Pacific Ocean. By Emily Wright, World News Reporter ...

Hinchcliffe’s comments included referring to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean,” and a generalization about Latinos, stating they “love making babies.” ...

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There's an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of trash in the garbage patch, according to Conservation.org, which also projects that by 2050, the mass of ocean trash from plastic will outweigh its fish.

In 1997 Captain Charles Moore was sailing from Hawaii to California when he noticed a steady stream of plastics bobbing in the ocean. He had discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.