A team of scientists fromthe organization Ocean Cleanup have been studyingthe Patch for...

A team of scientists from
the organization Ocean Cleanup have been studying
the Patch for some time and were surprised
when they discovered that the vast majority
of plastic in the Patch is not from old drinking straws
or used plastic water bottles, but from thousands of tons
of discarded fishing gear broken down by the sea
into trillions of pieces
of microplastic