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Many expeditions have traveled through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Charles Moore, who discovered the patch in 1997, continues to raise awareness through his own environmental organization, the Algalita Marine Research Foundation. The first caged plastic bag was found off the coast of Ireland in 1965. This, researchers say, could be the first marine plastic litter found.

In the oceans, microplastic pollution is often consumed by marine animals. Some of this environmental pollution is from littering, but much is the result of storms, water runoff, and winds that carry plastic and both intact objects and microplastics into our oceans These plastic wastes in the seas become fragile under the sun. It collides with other …

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