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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

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

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