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Q: When did the great pacific garbage patch began forming?
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Can a car be driven on the Great Garbage Patch?

No. The items in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch are not bonded together.


How long is the great pacific garbage patch?

1,000 years


How much does pollution raise sea levels through displacement See the 87000 tons in the Pacific garbage patch for example www.nytimes.com20180322climategreat-pacific-garbage-patch.HTML?

87,000 tons, according to the NY Times: See article: "The 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' Is Ballooning, 87,000 Tons of Plastic and Counting"


When did the great pacific garbage patch start?

1997 the effect of water pollution on ecosystem


Approximately where is it Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

It is located in an area call the North Pacific Gyre, which is a patch of the North Pacific Ocean that covers thousands of square miles roughly between the United States and Japan and reaching toward Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. It's called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch because the prevailing ocean currents tend to swirl around this patch of ocean, causing all manner of floating debris to be concentrated in the gyre.


How do you use gyre in a sentence?

This implies that the food web structure and primary productivity are uncoupled in the oligotrophic gyres.The North Pacific Gyre collected enough debris to create the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.


Where maximum pollution can be seen and felt?

Great pacific garbage patch.... It's where thousands of tons worth of waste has gathered in a big floating mess


Is there a landfill in the Pacific Ocean?

Yes it is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and it is twice the size of Texas. It's the largest landfill in the world, and it floats in the middle of the ocean.For more information, see related links.


Is all the plastic from the great pacific garbage patch picked up?

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What is floating in the great pacific garbage dump?

Plastic of every kind, some of it broken done into tiny particles that are being eaten by sea creatures and fish.


What is the biggest object on earth?

As far as I can find it is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, although I am also in search of a more satisfying answer for this, if i find one, I'll repost an answer


When was The Great Pacific Ocean created?

The Great Pacific Ocean was created in 1995.