Contrary to popular belief, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not a trash island as big as the size of Texas. It is more like collection of concentrated “pollution soups” that exist in the slower-moving currents in the North Pacific Gyre. More information will come soon.
Garbage
Not an island. A slow, invisible crisis.
Species
- Not applicable
Range
- Worldwide - but concentrated in oceanic gyres
Ecological role
- None. Systemic threat.
