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It’s no island: How the Pacific ‘garbage patch’ was exaggerated

Reporter Charlie Gillis on how Oprah.com and others overstated the notorious Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Read Charlie’s article “Trashing the island” from the January 31 issue of Maclean’s

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