Great Pacific Garbage Patch
CEFR: B2
A massive oceanic gyre of concentrated plastic debris and particulate sludge in the North Pacific Ocean.
Synonyms
- Pacific trash vortex
- marine debris gyre
Common Collocations
- scale of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
- debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
- clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Example Sentence
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch covers over 1.6 million square kilometers of pelagic ocean with drifting polymers.