Life Blooms On An Ocean Garbage Patch
Have you heard of a large floating body of trash, twice the size of the U.S state of Texas?
With over 79,000 tons of plastic debris, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the world’s largest known accumulation of marine trash.
Yet, the Patch is far from the barren plastic island you might imagine it to be. In fact, scientists have recently discovered close to 40 marine species, ranging from anemones to mollusks, marine bugs, and crustaceans on the Patch's surface.