The Great Pacific Garbage Patch or Eastern Garbage Patch)is a Region

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch or Eastern Garbage Patch) is a region of the Pacific Ocean northeast of Hawaii where high concentrations of marine debris can be found.This debris includes easily visible large pieces of floating litter such as plastic bottles,along with vast quantities of easily overlooked confetti- sized plastic particles suspended in the surface waters.The patch is estimated to be at least the size of Texas,with some estimates as great as the size of the continental United States.Several such patches exist in the various oceans across the globe.Which of the following materials is most likely to end up in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

• A)A glass bottle discarded into a garbage can at a convenience store in Seattle,Washington
• B)Debris from a ship that capsized and sank in a storm off the coast of Japan
• C)A toy army soldier flushed down the toilet in Los Angeles,California
• D)A barrel of hazardous waste illegally dumped off the coast of Chile

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