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Spot on. Another thing these experts fail to mention is that a lot of the data on the Pacific Garbage patch actually comes from the Ocean Cleanup, since, you know, they actually went out there to look.

There is the Marine Debris program at NOAA as well as satellite based tracking methods:

https://marinedebris.noaa.gov/discover-marine-debris/garbage...

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9449485

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