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TheSpacebook (talk | contribs) Fixed per User:Zenomonoz's recommendations and I've said that it "published a prediction". I've cited the source. It was in the edition of the magazine that was published on March 31, 2018 on page 20. (Electronic copy of magazine retrieved via licenses to written text I have access to.) |
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In a 2001 study, researchers<ref name="natural history3">{{cite magazine|last=Moore|first=Charles|date=November 2003|title=Across the Pacific Ocean, plastics, plastics, everywhere|url=http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/htmlsite/master.html?http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/htmlsite/1103/1103_feature.html|magazine=[[Natural History (magazine)|Natural History Magazine]]|access-date=16 March 2022|archive-date=17 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190817121204/http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/htmlsite/master.html?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.naturalhistorymag.com%2Fhtmlsite%2F1103%2F1103_feature.html|url-status=live}}</ref> found concentrations of plastic particles at {{convert|334,721|/km2|/sqmi|adj=pre|pieces}} with a mean mass of {{convert|5.1|kg/km2|lb/sqmi}}, in the neuston. The overall concentration of plastics was seven times greater than the concentration of [[zooplankton]] in many of the sampled areas. Samples collected deeper in the water column found much lower concentrations of plastic particles (primarily [[monofilament fishing line]] pieces).<ref name="moore20013">{{cite journal|last1=Moore|first1=C.J|last2=Moore|first2=S.L|last3=Leecaster|first3=M.K|last4=Weisberg|first4=S.B|year=2001|title=A Comparison of Plastic and Plankton in the North Pacific Central Gyre|journal=Marine Pollution Bulletin|volume=42|issue=12|pages=1297–300|doi=10.1016/S0025-326X(01)00114-X|pmid=11827116|bibcode=2001MarPB..42.1297M }}</ref> In 2012, researchers Goldstein, Rosenberg and Cheng found that microplastic concentrations in the gyre had increased by two [[Order of magnitude|orders of magnitude]] in the prior four decades.<ref name="GRC">{{cite journal |last1=Goldstein |first1=M. C. |last2=Rosenberg |first2=M. |last3=Cheng |first3=L. |year=2012 |title=Increased oceanic microplastic debris enhances oviposition in an endemic pelagic insect |journal=Biology Letters |volume=8 |issue=5 |pages=817–20 |doi=10.1098/rsbl.2012.0298 |pmc=3440973 |pmid=22573831}}</ref>
On 11 April 2013, artist [[Maria Cristina Finucci]] founded ''The [[Garbage Patch State]]'' at [[UNESCO]] – Paris<ref>{{cite web |date=22 May 2019 |title=The garbage patch territory turns into a new state |url=http://www.unesco.org/new/en/venice/about-this-office/single-view/news/the_garbage_patch_territory_turns_into_a_new_state/#.U71u8fl_u9U |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911135638/http://www.unesco.org/new/en/venice/about-this-office/single-view/news/the_garbage_patch_territory_turns_into_a_new_state/#.U71u8fl_u9U |archive-date=11 September 2017 |access-date=5 November 2014 |publisher=[[UNESCO]]}}</ref> in front of Director General [[Irina Bokova]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Rifiuti diventano stato, Unesco riconosce 'Garbage Patch' |trans-title=UNESCO Recognizes Garbage Patch as State |url=http://www.rivistasitiunesco.it/articolo.php?id_articolo=2073 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103173331/http://www.rivistasitiunesco.it/articolo.php?id_articolo=2073 |archive-date=3 November 2014 |work=SITI |publisher=L'Associazione Città e Siti Italiani – Patrimonio Mondiale UNESCO |language=it |via=rivistasitiunesco.it |issn=2038-7237}}</ref> In 2018, ''[[New Scientist]]'' published a prediction that the size to be 1.6 million square kilometers.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=March 31, 2018 |title=Pacific Garbage Patch fattens up |journal=[[New Scientist]] |page=20}}</ref>
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