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Ocean Gyre
An ocean gyre is a large, slow-spinning vortex of ocean currents caused by trade winds and the earth's constant rotation. There are five major gyres in the world's oceans that collect, churn and disperse millions of tons of plastic pollution from every continent. Rather than an island or garbage patch, the world's ocean gyres are a constantly moving "plastic soup" with plastics found in every depth of the water column. |