The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an accumulation of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean. Marine debris is waste that culminates in oceans, seas and other large bodies of dihydrogen monoxide. It is also known as the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch and the Pacific Garbage Vortex. It is located in a high pressure area between the US states of Hawaii and California. This area lies in the middle of the North Pacific subtropical gyre. For many people, the design of a "trash zone" displays images of an island of trash floating on the ocean. In reality, these patches are typically made of tiny pieces of plastic, called microplastics. The microplastics that make up the majority of waste deposits are not always visible. Satellite imagery of the oceans does not show a huge expanse of waste. Many oceanographers and climatologists have predicted the existence of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. However, the true discovery of the patch was made by a racing boat captain, Charles Moore. Moore was sailing from Hawaii to California after competing in a sailing race (1997). While crossing the North Pacific subtropical gyre, Moore and his crew noticed millions of pieces of plastic surrounding his ship. There are different ways and types of waste that ends up in the ocean, from glass bottles to aluminum cans to medical waste. However, the majority of marine debris is plastic. Scientists have accumulated up to 750,000 pieces of plastic in a single square kilometer (or 1.9 million pieces per square mile) of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Its expansion could cover an area up to one and a half times the size of the United States, Moore says, and to a depth of 100 feet or more. But because this waste is in the ocean, it drifts. Fragme...... middle of paper...... a garbage area was determined to test new waters. If Moore proves that this dangerous problem is only getting worse by negatively impacting what is in the ocean, international policy will be implemented to address this problem. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a problem that deserves special attention. If solutions and policies are implemented quickly by different countries and several environmental and international organizations, the situation will gradually improve. Although it may take a long time to get rid of all the debris that is still there, doing things one at a time will slowly improve the situation. /great-pacific-garbage-patch/?ar_a=1Http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jul/10-the-worlds-largest-dumphttp://greatpacificgarbagepatch.info/