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Holiday of a Lifetime! (The Great Pacific Garbage Patch)

A film about the Great Pacific Garbage patch, made by students from Huish Episcopi Academy with help from the team at Explorium.  This is the first in what we hope will be a series of films with strong environmental messages commissioned by the Young People's Trust for the Environment (YPTE) and made by young people for young people.
A group of friends are sent on a prize holiday to a mystery destination, which turns out to be the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.  Once they get there, they find their holiday is not what they had hoped for.  In the end though, they come home having learned some life-changing lessons.

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