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Floating garbage

The Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch, situated in remote waters between California and Hawaii, is created by ocean currents that pick up millions of tons of the world’s discarded plastic. As much as 10 per cent of the 260 million tons of plastic produced annually ends up in the oceans, much of it in trash vortices like the Pacific garbage patch. This summer, two separate expeditions will set sail for the patch to document the scope of the problem and call global attenti on to disastrous ocean pollution.

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