Talk:Garbage patch

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WikiProject Oceans To-do List:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : List of oceanographers, create a comprehensive article on Concentrations of marine debris out of all the gyre and "garbage patch" articles
Copyedit : Draft:Terrance (octopus)
Expand : Coral Sea, Endeavour Strait, Greenland Sea, Solomon Sea
Photo : find images for Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in the oceans
Stubs : Oceanography stub articles, Marine geography stub articles, Aleutian Trench, Bellingshausen Sea, Caernarfon Bay, Gerlache Strait, Gulf of Oman, Iceland Sea, Draft:Terrance (octopus)
Update : Botany Bay, Wilkins Sound, Mariana Trench, Challenger Deep
Verify : Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Bering Sea, Gulf of Aden, Iceberg B-15, Ionian Sea, Japan Trench, Moreton Bay, Sound (geography), Timor Sea
Other : add ISBNs and remove excessive or inappropriate external links from Aral Sea; check La Belle (ship) for GA status; improve citations or footnotes and remove excessive or inappropriate external links from MS Estonia

Suggestion to expand and rename this article

A discussion is underway on the talk page of microplastics to take this article ("garbage patch"), rename it and expand it (see here). The new title would be "Plastic pollution in oceans". The content of plastic soup would also be moved to here. Whilst this article title is about any garbage it seems to be mostly about plastic pollution. The rationale would be to avoid having to start another article but at the same time to consolidate the scattered content of plastics in oceans into one main article:

Wiki Education assignment: Digital Citizenship

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 9 January 2023 and 5 March 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Sonia Grissel Hernandez (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Sonia Grissel Hernandez (talk) 03:24, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]