In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, new marine ecosystems are flourishing

Image caption: Coastal podded hydroid Aglaophenia pluma and open-ocean gooseneck barnacle Lepas living on floating plastic. Image credit: photo courtesy of the Ocean Cleanup in coordination with Smithsonian Institution. Article by Tim Brinkhof. Knowable Magazine – November 14, 2023.

In the Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and California, at least 79,000 metric tons of plastic has coalesced to create the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The patch, kept together by ocean currents and spanning an area of roughly 1.6 million square kilometers — about twice the size of Texas — […]

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