| | The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a collection of plastic, floating trash located halfway between Hawaii and California, has grown to more than 600,000 square miles, according to a study published Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal "Nature Scientific Reports." Thatâs twice the size of Texas. The garbage in the patch includes some 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic and weighs the equivalent of 500 jumbo jets.
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