What is the Pacific Garbage Patch?

Who Smarted? - Educational Podcast for Kids

Atomic Entertainment Group LLC

Education For Kids, Kids & Family

4.4 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Is the Garbage Patch just floating garbage? How big is the Pacific Garbage Patch? Why hasn't it been cleaned up, yet? Have you started your FREE TRIAL of Who Smarted?+ for AD FREE listening, an EXTRA episode every week & bonus content? Sign up right in the Apple app, or directly at WhoSmarted.com and find out why more than 1,000 families are LOVING their subscription! Get official Who Smarted? Merch: tee-shirts, mugs, hoodies and more, at Who Smarted?

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0:00.0	P-S. Hey there, Smarty Pants.
0:05.0	As you can hear, I'm back at the beach.
0:07.7	The sun is shining, the seagulls are soaring, and the water is absolutely beautiful.
0:14.4	Um, excuse me, sir? Um, what's your name?
0:17.7	Mark?
0:18.6	Well, Mark, I couldn't help notice you just threw a plastic water bottle into the ocean.
0:23.8	What? You wanted the deposit on it?
0:26.8	No. I wanted to let you know you shouldn't throw trash into the ocean.
0:31.2	Why not? The ocean's huge, dude. One plastic bottle isn't going to hurt it.
0:36.9	Uh-huh. I guess you've never heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
0:40.7	No? What's that?
0:42.8	Well, I could tell you, but it might make more of an impression if I showed you.
0:47.9	You're not busy, are you?
0:49.3	Actually, I was about to go jet skiing.
0:52.2	Great. Shrinkify.
0:53.9	Whoa!
0:55.2	What's going on?
0:56.9	Are we shrinking?
0:58.5	Dude, are you like some kind of wizard?
1:02.1	Is this like World of Warcraft, IRL edition?
1:06.7	No, I'm not a wizard, and this isn't World of Warcraft.
1:09.6	I'm the trusty narrator, and this is the Who Smarted Podcast.
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