Microplastics collected at the surface of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Pieces are laid out on a 5x5 mm grid.

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.