New research has found that the "garbage patches" floating in the ocean blue are full of life, and cleaning up that trash isn't as harmless as it sounds.
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In 1997, Captain Charles Moore first discovered the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” the largest accumulation of plastic waste in the ocean. Since then, scientists have documented how plastic has permanently damaged marine ecosystems and even altered evolution and the problem has only grown larger. But Moore and other researchers aren’t giving up hope that we can still save the oceans.