Garbage Patch, which Susan Casey informed us about in her essay “Our oceans are turning into plastics..Are we?”, and as it’s name suggested the patch is filled with plastic wastes. “The area in which it accumulates is now twice the size of Texas”, as Casey stated in her essay. Unintentionally discovered by Charles Moore while he was sailing his way back from a race; the Garbage Patch stretches on for hundreds of miles and to make things worse, the South Pacific, the North and South Atlantic, and the Indian Ocean all has their own Garbage Patch. On the bright side, Charles Moore created Algalita Marine Research Foundation to spread the existence of the Garbage Patch. What’s most concerning about these patches is the fact that, together, these
