All this adds up to perhaps 100m tonnes of floating garbage, and more is arriving every day.

这些漂浮的垃圾加起来重100吨，而且每天都在增加。

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But there are also worries over the health risks posed by floating garbage, open sewage and toxic runoff from industrial estates and rice paddies from the north.

但是人们也担心，由于漂浮的垃圾、没有掩盖的污水沟，以及从工业区和北方稻田溢流出的有毒物质会带来健康风险。

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Next to it a boy leaned against the railings, his rod and line dangling out over the floating garbage and the stream of brown, stinking waste which trickled from a pipe in the wall below.

在它旁边有一个男孩依靠在围栏上，他的鱼竿和线悬荡在漂浮的垃圾和那股从下面墙上的管子里流淌出的褐色的、臭烘烘的污水上面。

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In recent years, there have been growing concerns about the floating garbage and its effect on sea creatures and human health.

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The floating garbage also can have harmful effects on people.

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All together, this mass of waste floating in the North Pacific Ocean is known as the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch.

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