The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirling vortex roughly twice the size of Texas filled with tiny bits of plastic and other debris.

太平洋中有一个巨大的涡状形垃圾带，其面积大约是得克萨斯州的两倍，充满着小片塑料和其他碎片。

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You can literally see the result 1,000 miles (1,600 km) west of San Francisco in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirling mass of plastic debris twice the size of Texas.

你可以看见这导致的结果就是从圣弗朗西斯科向西1000英里到太平洋有一大片的垃圾，大量的碎片分布相当于德州面积的两倍。

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Writing in his new book "Plastic Ocean, " Moore says he didn't know he would "gain a surprising amount of notoriety as the 'discoverer' of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch."

在他的新书《塑料海洋》中，他说他没想到会因为“发现”大太平洋垃圾带而被如此关注。

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The existence of the North Pacific Garbage Patch first gained public attention in nineteen ninety-seven.

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The eastern part of the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch is about one thousand six hundred kilometers west of California.

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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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And he describes the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an enormous expanse of the Pacific Ocean where currents concentrate the trash over a continent-sized area.

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Although this flow has prevented tsunami debris from approaching the islands, it carries a lot of trash from the Pacific Garbage Patch between Hawaii and California.

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In a different answer to rising sea levels, Dutch studio Whim Architects produced plans for floating, self-sustaining homes made from plastic waste from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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