This is what it looks like. In places it is thirty feet deep and some estimates say that the Pacific garbage patch covers an area twice the size of the United States (this is, admittedly, the high estimate. Some estimates put patches just a little larger than Texas). There are five of them, though, not just two.
The fact that humans can sleep at night with that abomination sitting in the oceans shows that we, in general, don't give a stuff about anything. If it weren't for the ocean currents keeping this stuff away from the coast, it would be piled up so deep against our beaches and harbours that there wouldn't be a single place on dry land where you could see the ocean (not even from a skyscraper).
Is it normal there's a massive island of plastic in the ocean?
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This is what it looks like. In places it is thirty feet deep and some estimates say that the Pacific garbage patch covers an area twice the size of the United States (this is, admittedly, the high estimate. Some estimates put patches just a little larger than Texas). There are five of them, though, not just two.
The fact that humans can sleep at night with that abomination sitting in the oceans shows that we, in general, don't give a stuff about anything. If it weren't for the ocean currents keeping this stuff away from the coast, it would be piled up so deep against our beaches and harbours that there wouldn't be a single place on dry land where you could see the ocean (not even from a skyscraper).