The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a 10,000,000 square mile area in the middle of the Pacific ocean.
First discovered in 1997 by self trained ocean researcher Charles Moore, he named the stretch of ocean between the UK and China The Great Pacific Garbage Patch because of it's 30 foot deep and 10,000,000 square mile mass.
The area is about twice the size of Texas.
Since it's discovery, the area has been under study by environmental groups and Universities for it's negative impact on aquatic wi…
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Posted on October 10, 2009 at 2:02pm —
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