Tag: garbage patch

• Monday, May 14th 2012 - 05:08 UTC

  Huge garbage patch in north Pacific is creating changes in the ocean food web

  

  In a part of the ocean known as the North Pacific Gyre, human-produced plastic has increased 100-fold over the past 40 years, according to a new study. This is the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is not an actual floating island of garbage, but which is filled with floating bits of plastic, often fingernail-sized, mostly from the US west coast and from the east coast of Asia.