Great Pacific Garbage Patch The Facts

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Eight million tons of plastic winds up into the world's oceans every year, much of that accumulating in

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"60 Minutes" producers and NOAA's Kevin O'Brien clear up misconceptions about the concentration of plastic in the

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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In a previous version of this video, we mistakenly compared the size of the

The world's oceans are filled with islands. In

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