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I agree with your comments about the comedian. It caused me to do a bit of searching about where specifically he got that terminology. If you look on the NOAA site, you can find an article that calls the trash in the waters around Puerto Rico a “garbage patch.” That’s the official terminology used! There five identified “GARBAGE PATCHES” in the world’s oceans. The effort to clean up the trash on the island and in the waters surrounding Puerto Rico has been going on officially with NOAA and the US Department of Commerce (& now EPA & other “stakeholders”) since about 2013. Now “yearly” they have to revise the program because it’s such a huge herculon job that they admit, may not be possible to clean up.

http://marinedebris.noaa.gov/discover-marine-debris/garbage-patches

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