A Floating, Plastic Garbage Dump

This great, floating garbage patch also known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the Eastern Garbage Patch or the Pacific Trash Vortex is composed almost entirely of plastic. This is no tiny garbage patch either. It is the size of Africa. Ten million square miles. It is literally a continent of garbage. Experts say that it would be easier to vacuum up every square inch of the United States than to simply vacuum up the gyre.