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Seal in mid-Pacific Ocean. East of Midway and the Hawaiian Islands is what is perhaps the world’s largest garbage dump: a floating, rotating “island” of trash-ladened water about twice the size of Texas.
LA River at the sea. The Los Angeles River carries enough trash each year to fill the Rose Bowl two stories high, and despite efforts to corral some of it near the river mouth, most slips through to the ocean.
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