Is the patch of plastic really that big? I guess I imagine really dense concentrations of the stuff.

Yep, from the drawing provided, it looks like a huge dense mess that goes down 10 meters. From the guys description though, it's more like debris scattered throughout. You would think though that either way there would be pictures, somewhere.

Regardless, it's pretty depressing.

This is horrible. This was posted, maybe a year or two ago. The spot was the size of Texas. Now it's twice the size of the US. This is tragic. We're killing our world.

However, we now have technology that we can use to transform the plastic back in to crude oil. I really wish we could turn the whole thing back into oil. If we don't do something to clean up the world, we're fuct.

Here's that link. I don't know why it says "nutrifecta" in the link address. Rest assured, it's Plime.

This is the third time I've heard about this. What I don't get is, why are there never pictures of this 'soup' to go with the article?

I have to guess it doesn't look so bad up close and the effect is greater when you leave it up to people's imagination..

thank god, now I know where I can find my sand bucket i lost when I was 5. Damn ocean give it back!

Well according to last nights episode of Futurama, we should strap it to a rocket and launch our giant ball of trash into space.

what if we already did that in the future and that gigantic ball of plastic morphed into a comet, traveled back in time through a worm hole and zooms by the earth every 6 years or so?

Well then we'll just have to shoot more garbage at it.

Guess I better get my as to Hawaii before that place is befouled.

The 2012 thing is looking more and more likely every day.

We can use the Smellascope to pinpoint its exact location. Take that you confounded garbage!

I`m surprised it`s not bigger than it is.

But what if it just came back around a few thousand years later?!

Coincidentally I was listening to an article about this on the radio yesterday (well, maybe not that coincidentally as it's a news posting) where they referred to it as Plastic Plankton.

I guess that's probably why there aren't so many photos - it is particulate and so at best the photos would be of murky water.