New study helps explain how garbage patches form in the world's oceans

A new study on how ocean currents transport floating marine debris is helping to explain how garbage patches form in the world’s oceans. Researchers developed a mathematical model that simulates the motion of small spherical objects floating at the ocean surface.

(via WSJ)

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