".....the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the North Pacific Ocean is less like a patch and more like a massive swirling vortex more than three times the size of Spain and more than twice the size of Turkey or Texas." See: https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/e72c4d...91e207bee/ss_the-giant-garbage-vortex-in.html
Of course, if all of the environmentalists who took pictures of it cleaned some of it up before they left, it wouldn't be there. That's kind of like the photographers who take pictures of children starving to death without feeding them. They want us to cry about it, but they're there, and not doing anything about it.
@Ken Anderson Sorry, but I must disagree. On two points. First, they are informing us, which is most important. Many remain uninformed except for awareness of the gradual erosion they see around them, in their own little world. Second, it took probably a century, and countless billions of pieces of trash contributed by untold millions of people, to reach the point of "stinking" enough, the world is taking note of it. The folks spreading awareness could "pick and scratch" to clean up, sure, but to what avail given the clean-up scale? Or, perhaps I see things too pragmatically. Frank