I think calling it an island is doing it a disservice. It’s not visible as any collective mass of anything. It’s a diffuse mess of micro and macroscopic plastic spread across a truly massive area. Its essentially invisible from the surface.
You call it an island and the first thing people will want to see is images or video of this island. When they find out it doesn’t exist as described it makes them think the issue is overblown.
The supermassive island of plastic waste that no one’s doing anything about other than dumping more plastic, which finds its way to that pile
The Ocean Cleanup
Don’t forget fungus is hard at work evolving at a rapid pace to eat plastic! Nature’s trying its heart out but it ain’t fast.
I think calling it an island is doing it a disservice. It’s not visible as any collective mass of anything. It’s a diffuse mess of micro and macroscopic plastic spread across a truly massive area. Its essentially invisible from the surface.
You call it an island and the first thing people will want to see is images or video of this island. When they find out it doesn’t exist as described it makes them think the issue is overblown.