The plastic pollution in the gyre is far less visible.
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That's still the only way that the gyre will ever narrow.
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Within the gyre, trash can get trapped and circulate for years.
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Updated February 1st, 2018: Updated with changes to John Scalzi's Widening Gyre.
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The Pacific "gyre" is the worst-affected area, but the problem is universal.
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Striving to catch his breath, he returned to Wilson's journey to the gyre.
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Typhoons bury Japan in plastic from the Greater Pacific Gyre (former Pacific Ocean).
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It's the latest wave in a widening political gyre of the President's own making.
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Or are you just another working human caught in the gyre, so to speak?
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Some glob onto an Alaska-sized gyre of plastic debris swirling in the Pacific Ocean.
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History rhymes rather than repeats; we are not reliving the widening gyre that Didion discerned.
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Borrowers began to default, saddling lenders with losses and creating a widening gyre of insolvency.
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Hawaii is located in a huge circular system of ocean currents, the North Pacific Gyre.
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Moore began taking researchers to the gyre, dragging nets alongside his catamaran and cataloguing the contents.
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Midway is itself on the edge of the North Pacific Gyre, or the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
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Light beacons will alert the two dozen ships which cross the gyre each week to its presence.
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Mueller has remained an impassive cypher: the stoic, silent figure at the center of America's political gyre.
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Vorontsova, who would appear to be dead center in the gyre of scandals, has remained strangely silent.
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In the animation, gravity twists light into a mesmerizing gyre that shifts based on your vantage point.
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The tail end of the North Pacific Gyre crashes up against the islands, leaving vast piles of trash.
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By 2040, Slat promised, he could clear ninety per cent of the trash from the North Pacific gyre.
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Dr Ryan's particular interest was where all the litter came from before it was swept into the gyre.
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Everything in Natural Wonders is a manufactured landscape — although not of the toxic waste/landfill/ocean gyre variety.
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It's caused by a rotating current, called a gyre, that pulls in the trash and won't let it go.
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Ocean acidification, warming marine temperatures, mega-cyclones and a Texas-size gyre of floating trash imperil the region's marine life.
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Today, that melee is largely a left-spinning gyre -- but let us not forget that the right does this, too.
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Gyre is a massive circular currents in the ocean and scientists say there are five major gyres in the world.
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There, plastic trash swirls around in a circular ocean current, or gyre, all around the Pacific between California and Hawaii.
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The "great Pacific garbage patch" consists of millions of tonnes of rubbish floating in the slowly circulating North Pacific Gyre.
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But the size of the gyre is such that the rubbish adds up to just five kilograms per square kilometre.
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According to new models by researchers from Australia, a sixth gyre might form in future decades — in the Arctic Barents Sea.
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One study put hatchlings in test sites that simulated the magnetic fields at three points on the outer edge of the gyre.
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It's a ticket on a widening gyre, promising political catastrophe and moral corruption both, no matter what ideals seem to justify it.
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On the beach, he told me about a small rip in Wilson's skirt that had occurred during the trip to the gyre.
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Here, suffering, famine and the endless gyre of Old-World conflict were set aside, or at least cushioned by New-World possibility.
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On Wednesday night, Cassini captured a series of photos that began with the spinning gyre in the center of Saturn's north pole hexagon.
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It is not a pure biography or history, but an ever-widening gyre of the scandals, art, theory and fashions of the time.
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There were tents, camouflage netting, and a gravel lot where helicopters beat down from above, scattering a gyre of silt into the air.
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The system can do little about plastic that has fragmented into microscopic particles, but these make up just 8% of plastic in the gyre.
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They swim from the coasts of Florida into the North Atlantic gyre, circling it for years before returning to their natal beaches to breed.
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Traveling by raft, Eriksen and Paschal make their way into the gyre the way that plastic garbage does—passively carried along by the current.
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After announcing the expedition in April 2015, The Ocean Cleanup deployed nearly 30 boats to scout the garbage gyre in July of that year.
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It is bounded by an enormous gyre -- spinning oceanic currents that pull trash towards the center and trap it there, creating a garbage vortex.
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The US National Ice Center suspects A68 will drift east-northwest along the the Antarctic Peninsula in the Weddell Gyre over the next several months.
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We are caught in a contextual death spiral — a bottomless gyre in which we tumble forever disoriented, helplessly drinking water to save ourselves from drowning.
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"If we do fail, I think there would be a risk that [a gyre cleanup] will not happen for a very long time," he said.
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Museo Atlántico differs from Taylor's previous work, in that it contains a botanical garden, a 30-meter wall, and 200 sculptures arranged in a gyre.
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Sargasso Sea (CNN)Within the Atlantic Ocean is the world's only sea without shores, its borders defined by the currents of the North Atlantic gyre.
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But it sits at the western side of the South Pacific Gyre, a counterclockwise current that collects floating debris from the shore of South America.
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After 30 vessels spent three years dragging nets through the pollution gyre, researchers concluded it had at least four times more plastic than scientists previously thought.
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Part memoir, part clean-ocean manifesto, Junk Raft tells the story of Eriksen's own visit to the gyre, travelling on a raft made of throwaway plastics.
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The island is located midway between South Africa and Argentina, on the southern end of a vast whirlpool of currents known as the South Atlantic gyre.
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The gyre is said to contain more than 1.8 trillion pieces of floating plastic — the equivalent of 250 pieces of debris for every person on Earth.
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The patch, a gyre of trash between California and Hawaii, comprises an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of scattered detritus, including at least 87,000 tons of plastic.
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Ending up in a circulating current called the Beaufort gyre that would be practically impossible for resupply ships to reach "would be really bad," she said.
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Still, the series' linking of irrational times and unspeakable acts resonates with today's stories of mass shootings and a widening gyre of chaos in the headlines.
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The island sits near the center of the South Pacific Gyre, an ocean current that sweeps up debris carried from South America and deposited by fishing boats.
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This hotspot of marine waste, created by the spiral currents of the North Pacific Gyre, has been described as a floating trash island the size of Russia.
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That's exactly what Eriksen was doing on his voyage to the gyre—providing a story he could use to raise awareness around the issue of plastic pollution.
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The gyre is said to contain more than 1.8 trillion pieces of floating plastic, or the equivalent of 250 pieces of debris for every person on Earth.
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It's a real widening gyre of a movie, set adrift by the vicissitudes of both theological and cinematic history, with no human center to hold it down.
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Chris Jordan's "Midway: Message from the Gyre (Albatross)" (2011) is an example of an artwork which has become, as Boetzkes puts it, "an iconic image of the Anthropocene".
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He expressed the hope that, by 2020, there would be sixty devices in the gyre; in five years, he said, they would have removed half of its trash.
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The title borrows a current meme, while also suggesting Yeats's apocalyptic poem "The Second Coming" ("Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer").
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The "great Pacific garbage patch", an Alaska-sized ocean gyre in the north Pacific Ocean, where currents channel all manner of flotsam, may contain 79,000 tonnes of plastic debris.
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Less than 1% of the plastic that enters the ocean from the shore actually makes its way to a gyre like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the researchers found.
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The Ocean Cleanup's publicity crew, seven strong, wore turquoise "Ocean Cleanup" shirts, which matched the turquoise-painted Maersk tug ship that would tow the system out to the gyre.
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Get too close to one, and its intricate mechanism shoots its hooks into you, pulling you through a portal into a gyre of suspense from which there's no escape.
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Update: Scalzi noted on his blog that the book's name is changing from The Widening Gyre to The Consuming Fire, and that it'll be the second installment of a trilogy.
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In 216, Moore published the results of his studies: there was six times more plastic in the gyre, by mass, than there was zooplankton, the base of the food chain.
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"They don't need a smartphone or even a phone for that matter," said Gyre Renwick, who leads health partnerships at Lyft and previously managed the health services team at Google.
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In the ocean, microplastics contribute to phenomena like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirling gyre of more than 87,000 tons of trash that lies hundreds of miles from shore.
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By the time we reach the gyre, plastics—especially those items designed to be immediately disposed of—seem to be not just the source of an ecological problem but inherently sinister.
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But it's how the party's voters answer, and what the next Democratic president does, that will determine how fast the cycle of polarization continues turning, how wide our immigration gyre becomes.
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Instead of following the current that swoops along the edge of the North Pacific subtropical gyre, he set a course through the still waters of the high-pressure zone at its center.
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Five weeks after the launch, on October 16th, Wilson, towed behind the Maersk tug, arrived at the North Pacific gyre, a few dozen degrees of longitude east of the International Date Line.
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The contraction that starts it is, of course, 'TWAS: 'TWAS brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
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Battered by the ocean and degraded by the sun, the plastics that make it all the way to the gyre are, for the most part, not whole objects, but little shreds and particles.
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Memories: feckless Europe at the time of the Bosnian war and the thirst, nonetheless, of the small nations reborn in Yugoslavia's death to join the European Union and escape the bloody Balkan gyre.
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The best place to take it all in is the roof of the Gyre Center, a dark, angular complex designed by yet another famous firm, the Dutch architects MVRDV, right next to Christian Dior.
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Stuck with a low approval rating, stalled legislative agenda, and, of course, the ever-widening gyre of the Mueller probe, the Trump administration and its allies could really use a distraction right about now.
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Normally at that time of year the area is chockablock with sea ice, the result of a rotating current, or gyre, in the Weddell that keeps much of the ice contained within the sea.
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The new study, led by Laurent Lebreton from The Ocean Cleanup Foundation, was an effort to quantify and characterize the trash found within this major oceanic "plastic pollution hotspot," also known as an oceanic gyre.
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As the ice moves further outwards into warmer waters, it melts, but Meier says that it is replenished each year through the Beaufort Gyre, which traps the ice, allowing it to grow older and thicker.
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The widening gyre, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is said to contain more than 2001 trillion pieces of floating plastic, or the equivalent of 223 pieces of debris for every person on Earth.
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We're stuck inside Aza's head and suffocating in the tightening gyre along with her to such a degree that, as the novel progresses, we become no more observant of the characters around her than she is.
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Henderson Island, which is a UNESCO world heritage site, is particularly hit by the plastic pollution because it's located at the edge of the South Pacific gyre, an ocean current that tends to pick up trash.
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The patch is not, as is often believed, a solid island of trash but a gyre, twice the size of Texas, where winds and currents draw diffuse floating debris onto a vast carrousel that never stops.
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Here was a detailed transcript of a stream of consciousness, but a hopelessly anarchic one liable to reverse course without notice, splash wildly, overflow its banks and then simply vanish, circling down a gyre of nothingness.
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CreditCreditDamon Winter/The New York Times At sunrise, there it was: a red-tailed hawk, its gyre widening over the United States Capitol building in the Creamsicle-colored light, like the world's least subtle literary reference.
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Every weird bit of detritus that spins off the turbulent garbage gyre at the heart of the internet and somehow washes up in front of you—how impossibly long were the odds that you would ever see it?
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Gradually, these communities have drifted together into one great aggrieved, misogynist gyre and bonded over a common interest: pretending to care about freedom of speech so they can feel self-righteous while harassing marginalized people for having opinions.
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This is allowing frigid air from a large gyre spinning around Hudson Bay, Canada, to steer cold air toward the U.S. This circulation pattern is distinct from the stratospheric polar vortex, which has actually been displaced across northern Asia.
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Others noted that Slat's approach, targeting the top 3 meters of the gyre, would do little to address the problem of microplastic, the tiny fragments that now suffuse the seas and get eaten by fish—and then by us.
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Recently, the non-profit organization Ocean Cleanup announced its plan to launch a mechanism designed to remove half of the plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, known as a gyre, off the coast of California in five years.
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But after almost two years of being forced to answer for Mr. Trump's relentless gyre of drama and just two months until Election Day, many rank-and-file Republicans say they have simply begun to tune the president out.
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"By partnering with Cubigo to enable a seamless transportation experience for seniors, we're getting one step closer to our mission of improving people's lives with the world's best transportation," VP of Lyft Business Gyre Renwick said in a press release.
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The islands make up the largest marine protected area in Latin America, but their biodiversity is threatened by tons of floating garbage from the nearby "South Pacific Gyre," one of the five garbage patches that exist in the world's oceans.
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Most problematic, and accounting for half of the plastic mass in the gyre, are what sailors call ghost nets: great tangles of mile-long discarded fishing nets weighing as much as two tons, which can ensnare animals such as seals and sea turtles.
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SPERM WHALE SWALLOWS 64 POUNDS OF TRASH, DIES OF &aposGASTRIC SHOCK&apos The Ocean Cleanup estimates they will be able to get rid of roughly 90 percent of ocean plastic from every ocean gyre — huge parts of the ocean where swirling currents concentrate the trash — by 2040.
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The wing motif, which returns as triangles or squares in paintings such as "Cygnus" or the self-identified "Wing," may be an indicator of the futility denoted in Yeats's "widening gyre," but it could also be an intimation of hope among the ruins — it holds the work aloft.
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The continuing wars in Ukraine and Syria, the apparent Russian campaign of targeted assassinations on foreign soil, the widening gyre of sanctions and countersanctions and the still-festering question of Russian meddling in the 2016 election have made for the worst relations between the two countries since the 1980s.
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Conceivably you even know what a black hole would "look" like, if you were ever so fortunate (unfortunate?) as to observe one up close: a gyre of oddly lit matter that wraps around a spherical split in spacetime, thanks to the beam-bending effects of gravitational lensing (another essential black hole concept).
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Caught up in the swirling gyre is a growing collection of human waste: trash from countries that border the Atlantic, from the west coast of Africa to the east coast of the US, slowly breaking up on its long journey into microplastics that end up in the gills and stomachs of aquatic animals.
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A week and a half after Slat and I met in New York, crew members stationed in the gyre were doing a maintenance check of Wilson when they noticed that one end of the boom, an eighteen-metre segment, had snapped off and floated away, owing, apparently, to "material fatigue" on a small section.
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Dr Jamieson suspects it has to do with the trench's proximity to the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a whirlpool hundreds of kilometres across that has amassed enormous quantities of plastics over the years, and which has the potential to send the pollutants that bind to those plastics deep into the ocean as the plastics degrade and descend.
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"Imagine if you could stand on the ocean floor and look up and see only the plastic," he explains: You would see five massive clouds of microplastic in the subtropical gyre and dark clouds of larger plastic pieces coming from the world's largest rivers and densely populated coastlines… All around you would be a mist of dust-like microplastic fragments settling to the seafloor.
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Among the recovered items is plastic trash with saltwater-subdued colors retrieved from the North Pacific Gyre, also known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," off the coast of Alaska, displayed in the "Cabinet of Marine Debris" The exhibition suffers a bit from its abundance, as the three pieces displayed in one room on the second floor seem disconnected (although this is a gallery show, so giving each its own room wouldn't be possible).
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