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Most of the plastic is broken down into tiny fragments smaller than a grain of rice, making traditional "scooping" impossible without harming marine life.

The story begins with a reality check: the "Garbage Patch" isn't a solid island of trash you can walk on. Instead, it is a massive, cloudy "soup" of suspended in the North Pacific Gyre. Scale: It covers an area twice the size of Texas. [S9E17] Upgrade

It is far more efficient to stop plastic at the source (rivers) than to hunt for it in the middle of the ocean. Most of the plastic is broken down into