Twice the size of Texas. That's the reported size of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an expanse of trash that's accumulated in the North Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles off the coasts of California and Hawaii. It's been repeated in the The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and on CNN. The reported size of the patch has been heavily debated-as has its depiction as a kind of "trash island," a solid mass of garbage. The truth is that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of widely dispersed, broken-down plastic waste particles.
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