garbage patch

English

Noun

garbage patch (plural garbage patches)

1. A piece of land used for dumping rubbish.
2. A gyre of marine debris particles caused by the effects of ocean currents and increasing plastic pollution by humans.

   the Great Pacific garbage patch

   • 2016 October 4, Oliver Milman, “‘Great Pacific garbage patch’ far bigger than imagined, aerial survey shows”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     A reconnaissance flight taken in a modified C-130 Hercules aircraft found a vast clump of mainly plastic waste at the northern edge of what is known as the “great Pacific garbage patch”, located between Hawaii and California.