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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch may be the most infamous of the world's floating trash

dumps, but it's far from the only one. There is plastic. infamous of the world's floating trash dumps.

But it's far from the only one.

There is plastic trash littering.

The Bay of Bengal, the Mediterranean Sea,

the coast of Indonesia, all five sub-tropical gyres,

coastal regions,

and closed bay season golfs.

Marcus Ericsson, director of research

at the Five Gyres Institute.

Ericsson surveyed those areas, along with his seafaring colleagues.

Collectively, they spent some 900 hours

logging every large piece of plastic

they could spot from their boats.

And they trawled for plastic nearly 700 times

along the way, picking through their nets and cataloging the debris.

I find the necks a bottle. I find fragments of toothbrushes and combs.

I actually figure parts. Army-Man. I find a lot of Army-Man.

The researchers plug that trash census data into ocean models,

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