The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, containing over 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic and estimated to be 1.6 million square kilometres, is an ecological disaster. A new study, however, shows that this giant collection of plastic trash has also become home to thousands of marine life, creating a new kind of ecosystem
Scientists have found thriving communities of coastal creatures, including tiny crabs and anemones, living thousands of miles from their original home on plastic debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a 620,000 square mile swirl of trash in the ocean between California and Hawaii.