Some disturbing news: in the middle of the Pacific, roughly halfway between San Francisco and Hawai'i, is the North Pacific Gyre. It is a clockwise circulating vortex of ocean currents that covers about 30 million square kilometers. And it acts as an attractor.

Since a long long time ago, the stable rotation of current causes a build up of material at the vortex, and that includes human waste. But in the past 50 years, the increased use of plastic and their disposal introduced large amounts of non-bio-degradable trash that are now accumulating at the center of the gyre.

With names like The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the location has accumulated a floating island of debris twice the size of Texas.