Garbage...Little or Big It's Still A Problem.

There seems to be a lot of misconception on The Great Garbage Gyre as well on the actual size of it. The Garbage Patch has been given many names one being an "Giant Island" but in reality it is made up of small microscopic piece of plastics with an area of 5000 sq. km and this amount has increased significantly over the past 40 years. In reality "most plastic size are about the size of your pinky fingernail" of course there is plastics of greater sizes but the majority are very small, but it's not the size of plastic but the amount of the plastic that is spread across the ocean.
 And that itself is effecting the marine ecosystem also known as "The Plastisphere" meaning an ecosystem out of balance with all of the plastic and garbage just sitting around more and more kinds of insects mainly water skaters are thriving on this garbage. One thing that is officially now a problem is that this itself could attract and transport invasive insects. The open ocean is mainly inhabited with lantern fish but if this problem continues there will be more plastic than fish and eventually having more water skaters and causing an unbalanced ecosystem, this could and will have a massive impact on native life that has kept our oceans healthy for years.


Scource: http://io9.com/5911969/lies-youve-been-told-about-the-pacific-garbage-patch