The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

A research team left Sunday on a three week voyage to study this Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the northern Pacific. The debris field is subsurface small pieces of plastic that is difficult to see from the surface or from the air.

It is suspected that this plastic debris field may be causing problems for marine animals. No doubt that a clean-up would be very expensive. Maybe on the order of the ash spill at the Kingston, Tenn. steam plant which may reach to near $1 billion.