Two teams of scientists have embarked on a mission to study the Pacific Garbage Patch, an area of converging ocean currents off California that contains 46 times more plastic than plankton.
Scientists from the UCSD Scripps Institution of Oceanography will provide the most comprehensive analysis of the litter pollution in the Garbage Patch to date. Also, Researchers from Project Kaisei, a nonprofit based in San Francisco, will study the feasibility of cleaning up the patch.