The Great Garbage Patch drifts between California and Hawaii

The Great Garbage Patch, the largest 'dump' on water in the world, is drifting between the coast of California and Hawaii. It grew to the current ~80,000 tons of waste (mostly plastic) since the late 1980s, and now the non-profit organization Ocean Cleanup plans to get rid of it once and for all. The team is already vigorously collecting trash there with a 2-kilometer net stretched between two ships, and then sending it for recycling. Preliminary estimates suggest it will take up to 10 years and $7.5 billion to clean it all up.