The 80,000-ton cloud of plastic and trash floating in the Pacific Ocean known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an environmental disaster. It is also teeming with life.
WSJ’s Daniela Hernandez explains why these specks of trash are a tough issue to address. Illustration: David FangAn 80,000-ton cloud of plastic and trash floating in the Pacific Ocean is an environmental disaster. It is also teeming with life.
Biologists who fished toothbrushes, rope and broken bottle shards from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch found them studded with gooseneck barnacles and jet-black sea anemones glistening like buttons. All told, they found 484 marine invertebrates
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