Talk:North Atlantic garbage patch

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How?
Anyone want to explain to me how something can be 'newly' discovered but studied for 22 years? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.124.212.65 (talk) 17:10, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Based on a quick read through the article, I think it means that such ocean debris in the area has been studied from so many years; while this Garbage Patch has only been discovered recently. Kind regards. Reh  man  07:46, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

Where?
So.. where is it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.216.218.158 (talk) 12:33, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
 * In the North Atlantic Gyre, which is of course, in the North Atlantic... Reh  man  04:23, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Sargasso sea
At the time of writing, this article does not mention the Sargasso Sea although it does mention the North Atlantic Gyre. Shouldn't this article at least mention the Sargasso Sea? Indeed, why do we need three articles? If we do need them separately, then they should cross-mention each other, and mention the distinguishing characteristics of the three terms, shouldn't they? Feline Hymnic (talk) 18:24, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

Edit Suggestions
This seems like a good start to the article but several of the components could be expanded upon. It seems that the research section could be more robust and you could elaborate on the findings of the research being done out of the University of Hawaii, or even just elaborate on the research methods.

In the portion about the effects on humans and wildlife are there any marine species that are particularly vulnerable? More so than others? Perhaps discuss the impact that ingesting these toxins have on people.

In general it may be good to discuss the major contributors to the North Atlantic Garbage Patch and where the marine debris is coming from or how much it has grown since it was first documented. Jadeorr11 (talk) 04:32, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Hoax
"The federally recognized Garbage Patch State spans over 16,000,000 kilometers and includes all 5 oceanic garbage patch islands." - what does it mean? The artistic action (because linked article says it's so) is federally recognized and this action includes garbage islands? Sorry, that makes no sense. Or maybe it suggests, same as website, that it's officially recognized state, which is not? http://www.garbagepatchstate.org/eng/dichiarazioni.html - take a look. I tried searching for the given name of the state and I've got 5 results in Google - trivia websites. And who said quoted words? There's no signature, not anything. I understand this is an important social action, but let's keep up with the facts. For now I'm removing it, as it seems that Wikipedia became part of the playground for the artist. No, this is not federally recognized state, not it doesn't spans over 16 million kilometers, but under 16 **square km** which makes quite a difference - all coastlines in the world has 1-1.6 million kilometers (i.e. 10 times less) and total area of the land is about 150 km^2 (i.e. 10 times larger). That gives us 100 times.

At last, but not least. It's an article about certain garbage patch and such information should be in more general article. 89.71.222.65 (talk) 06:17, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Marine plastic patch
There would be a marine plastic patch article, for generic and common information about the main patches. --BoldLuis (talk) 09:54, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

Confusion with Great Britain
I think there’s a likelihood of confusion between the subject of this article and Great Britain. I am aware of some Wikipedians who tried adding a confusion banner to this topic to minimise this. However they seem to have been interpreted as vandalism and removed by well-meaning but confused editors. perhaps due to the crude subject matter of this article.

Even my first post on the talk page was removed by someone who I must assume mistakingly thought I was trolling or making a post in mean spirits, but genuine confusion is likely to arise. A “not to be confused with…” tag should be added 2A04:4A43:495F:F1DD:ACA2:2B0C:B813:6D2C (talk) 22:07, 31 October 2022 (UTC)


 * It was a good joke by whoever first made it in September, but people who've seen a screenshot of it elsewhere on the internet don't need to keep adding it back to the article. --Belbury (talk) 22:25, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

"human waste" seemed to be confusing in this article
"The source of the garbage originates from human waste traveling from the rivers into the ocean and mainly consists of microplastics." While "Human waste (or human excreta) refers to the waste products of the human digestive system", the source of garbage should be man-made waste instead. ThomasYehYeh (talk) 02:31, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Conservation biology
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commiSSion
Correct: "commision" to "commission". 79.20.213.132 (talk) 14:34, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅--Belbury (talk) 14:57, 13 July 2023 (UTC)