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The Trash Trail: Why is there so much plastic in the ocean?

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

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The North Pacific Sub-Tropical Gyre

Most living things can eat plastic, and humans haven't figured out how to recycle all of it either. The North Pacific Sub-tropical Gyre is the biggest of the five major gyres on earth. A gyre is a system of ocean currents that swirl around in a circle. These two patches are connected because they're part of the same gyre.

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