[iowamark]

Oergon State University: Oceanic “garbage patch” not nearly as big as portrayed in media

[Williams]

Excellent link, thank you.

[Brandonmark]

Thanks for that link... particularly liked ths:

The studies have shown is that if you look at the actual area of the plastic itself, rather than the entire North Pacific subtropical gyre, the hypothetically “cohesive” plastic patch is actually less than 1 percent of the geographic size of Texas.