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Island of trash discovered in Pacific 1,000 miles off California coast | LAist - NPR News for Southern California - 89.3 FM
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Great Pacific Garbage Patch: There Is an Island of Trash Twice the Size of Texas Floating in the Ocean
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Friend of the Sea - This is all trash, and it's enormous... There is an island of garbage twice the size of Texas inside the Pacific Ocean: the North Pacific Gyre off
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