Tavish Campbell holding a fragment of plastic he found while snorkeling in the garbage patch. Many people know that fishing nets are damaging to marine life, but small particles can enter the food web and harm wildlife.

The crew of the Greenpeace ship MY Arctic Sunrise voyage into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch document plastics and other marine debris. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a soupy mix of plastics and microplastics, now twice the size of Texas, in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean.