I have heard that. I have no knowledge of the facts, but I offer this as a possibility:
I have heard that you could fit all 7 billion people on the planet in Texas. It's a thought experiment. If you were to gather every human, they could stand in a space the size of Texas. But what if you took every little bit of plastic which is in the entire Pacific ocean, and what if you gathered them all together? How much area could you (theoretically) cover with all of that plastic? Perhaps a space the size of Texas. THEREFORE: There is a plastic island the size of Texas floating in the Pacific.
Back when I taught critical thinking, I used to point out to my students who were convinced that the US was overpopulated that one could give a half-acre of land in Texas to every person living in the US (about 310 million at the time), and still have land leftover in Texas, with the other 56 states (/sarc) completely devoid of population.
Now the ‘sea of plastic garbage’ is the ‘size of Alaska.’ Last month it was ‘the size of Texas’ yet no satellite photo has been presented because the sea of plastic is a fiction. The ultimate in Fake News.”
The statement comes up in FR on occasion.
“There is said to be a island of plastic in the Pacific Ocean the size of Texas.”
I saw an article about this some time back, & this article does mention it. The reality is there is no island. There is a ‘quiet’ area where ocean currents bring floating debris where it kind of sits for a while. But as this article says, there is nothing that could be taken a picture of from a satellite. It’s tiny slivers of plastic that will eventually degrade from solar activity. Just another enviro-hoax that the lamestream media will not de-bunk. The enviro grifters need to make a living.
Supposedly collected by the North Pacific Gyre, where various current meet and form a vast, slow, whirlpool.
Conveniently, this location is way the hell-n-gone off any shipping routes, so we are left with whatever the Climate Liars say it is.