"Plastic Garbage Patch Bigger Than Mexico Found in Pacific"

"Yet another floating mass of microscopic plastic has been discovered in the ocean, and it is mind-blowingly vast."

"Water, water, everywhere—and most of it is filled with plastic.

A new discovery of a massive amount of plastic floating in the South Pacific is yet another piece of bad news in the fight against ocean plastic pollution. This patch was recently discovered by Captain Charles Moore, founder of the Algalita Research Foundation, a non-profit group dedicated to solving the issue of marine plastic pollution.

Moore, who was the first one to discover the famed North Pacific garbage patch in 1997, estimates this zone of plastic pollution could be upwards of a million square miles in size. (Read: A Whopping 91% of Plastic Isn’t Recycled.)"

Shaena Montanari reports for National Geographic July 25, 2017.