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Letter to the Editor: Local Items Found in Great Ocean Garbage Patch
People pollute. A lot. In the great Pacific Ocean garbage patch, a bottle found was from Iowa.

To the editor:
Most of us are familiar with the great ocean garbage patches—the place in the oceans where the wind currents bringing all the garbage together.
The Pacific Ocean garbage patch is twice the size of Texas!
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Most of the time people from the Midwest assume that we cannot possibly affect the garbage in the ocean. It was discovered lately that one of the bottles in a garbage patch was from Iowa!
Harley Horsager,
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