It swirls. It grows. It’s a massive, floating ‘garbage patch.’
Located in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii and
measuring in at roughly twice the size of Texas, this elusive mass is
home to hundreds of species of marine life and is constantly expanding.
It has tripled in size since the middle of the 1990s and could grow
tenfold in the next decade.
Although no official title has been given to the mass yet, a popular label thus far has been “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.”
Read the article from the Tyee.ca
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