The Plastic Continent

[Nik]

We've already discussed how much junk flies around the Earth in outer space.
But space waste option is available only to a selected few, while the ocean is much more accessible. In fact, so accessible that we already have a continent three times bigger than France floating in the Pacific O.:
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/0...
Is it something need to be taken care of or let float peacefully? Is there a danger that all our basins would eventually turn into plastic baths?

[Ian]

What it is doing is choking or starving anything that feed off jellyfish, so the oceans may turn into jellyfish tanks. It is somewhat deplorable because a lot of that will have arisen from people on ships throwing it overboard as a waste disposal system. Some people are totally irresponsible.

[Nik]

Ian wrote: "...people on ships throwing it overboard..."

I bet the bigger chunk comes of shores...

[Scout]

I can't remember where I read it, but I think there's a group collecting the plastic and recycling it. I hope so.