garbage patch

English

Noun

garbage patch (plural garbage patches)

  1. A piece of land used for dumping rubbish.
  2. A gyre of marine debris particles caused by the effects of ocean currents and increasing plastic pollution by humans.
    the Great Pacific garbage patch
    • 2016 October 4, Oliver Milman, “‘Great Pacific garbage patch’ far bigger than imagined, aerial survey shows”, in The Guardian‎:
      A reconnaissance flight taken in a modified C-130 Hercules aircraft found a vast clump of mainly plastic waste at the northern edge of what is known as the “great Pacific garbage patch”, located between Hawaii and California.
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