Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Debris from tsunami to reach West Coast, join Great Pacific Garbage Patch

In the wake of last year's earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan, a huge patch of flotsam washed into the Pacific Ocean has been drifting toward the US Some debris has already washed ashore on Washington state's Olympic Peninsula and Alaska'sThe Great Pacific Garbage Patch will soon include debris from the Japanese tsunami, while one million to 2 million tons of lumber, construction material, refrigerators, TVs, fishing boats and other fragments from Japanese coastal towns

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