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the Eastern Garbage Patch

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by dr dij

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Here's a garbage dump that is in one place, 100 feet deep and larger than the United States:

Can you figure out where it is without clicking on the link?

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/07/16/the_world_s_worst_ongoing_disasters?page=0,4

I was going to call this 'Trivia' but appears it is not trivial.

I'm sure there will be others who declare that it A) does not exist, or B) was not created by humans

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by nexs

And it's concerning.

But on a lighter note; How far away from the Bermuda Triangle is it? ;) Could be where everything goes when it disappears.

by santeewelding

Where the oil goes -- poof! -- when it rounds the Florida panhandle on its way up the Gulf Stream, leaving the shores of England safe.

by jck

Huge pile of stuff swirling in the ocean, and the countries of the world really don't care enough to make a concerted effort to do something about it over the past decade.

Maybe after they skim the oil off the Gulf of Mexico, they can fit the boats with nets and go skim for plastic.

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