Das Great Pacific Garbage Patch ist mittlerweile so groß, dass es Dutzenden von Lebewesen ein Zuhause bietet, was die Aufräumarbeiten erschwert

From the article:

„When we picture the open Pacific, we imagine endless blue water and not much else. Marine researchers, however, are now seeing something very different: places like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch where plastic waste has built a kind of artificial shoreline far from any land.

In the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, the huge rotating current system between California and Hawaii, floating objects tend to get trapped instead of drifting away.

That’s where you find what people commonly call the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a region that now holds tens of thousands of tons of plastic pieces sturdy enough to move around the ocean for years at a time.“

Whenever I can, I give [The Ocean Cleanup](https://theoceancleanup.com/) a plug. I’ve been following and donating to them for years. They’re the real deal.

Tens of millions of kilograms of ocean plastic has been cleaned by them to date, with a goal of cleaning 90% of the shit by 2040.

They’re also smart enough to be catching the rubbish at the main source points around the world (over 1,000 rivers of worst offending countries) with their Interceptor fleet, while also tackling the main ocean patch with their badass System vessels.