World's largest collection of ocean garbage is now twice the size of Texas, study finds. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a collection of plastic, floating trash located halfway between Hawaii and California, has grown to more than 600,000 square miles, according to a study published Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal "Nature Scientific Reports." That’s twice the size of Texas. The garbage in the patch includes some 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic and weighs the equivalent of 500 jumbo jets. Ref. USAToday.
A giant floating trash collector will try to scoop up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, On Sept. 8, an ungainly, 2,000-foot-long contraption will steam under the Golden Gate Bridge in what’s either a brilliant quest or a fool's errand: to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Source 7u.