the Great Pacific Garbage Patch from jonathon alcorn blog Capt Moore displays samples of some of the plastics they have recovered from the Garbage Soup. He told me that the plastics break down to minute particles and sea life and fish consume it. If you enjoy seafood, be forewarned.

continent-size toxic stew of plastic trash fouling swath of Pacific Ocean Feds want to survey, possibly clean up vast garbage pit in Pacific  behold the GPGP -- if you're brave enough trash vortex plague of plastic chokes the sea plastic in the environment algalita marine research foundation, monitoring the GPGP trashed