What does NPG stand for?

North Pacific Gyre

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Byline: Mamta03 The British Plastics Federation has responded to Project Kaisei's findings on plastics in the North Pacific Gyre.

United Kingdom : BPF says better waste management needed to tackle ...

The sheer quantity of plastic that accumulates in the North Pacific Gyre, a vortex formed by ocean and wind currents and located 1,000 miles off the California coast, has the scientists worried about how it might harm the sea creatures there.

Pacific Ocean garbage patch worries researchers

The patch, also described as the "Pacific trash vortex," is an area in the North-Central Pacific where tiny bits of trash, together weighing as much as 100 million tons, have been trapped by the currents of the North Pacific Gyre.

Captain Charles Moore

This trash swirls in a circulating pattern called the North Pacific Gyre, created from four ocean currents that combine to create a massive swirling vortex.

Research and Markets: Green Report Card - Consumer Perceptions of ...

Ironically, I had just attended the International Marine Debris Conference in Honolulu, which focused on the massive amounts of derelict fishing gear and plastics accumulating in the North Pacific Gyre, a major clockwise ocean current system.

A Sea Adrift in Deadly Plastics