Reply #8: Misleading. There isn't 10 million square miles of trash. [View All]

[Ikonoklast]

I don't think that it is possible to cover 14% of the total surface of the Pacific ocean in trash. It would be seen from outer space.

Now, if you said that in this ten million square mile area, there was trash found, I would say that is probably correct.

Hyperole doesn't help their cause.

If they say that they found .01 gram of plastic in every square meter of water, as stated in the article, that is vastly different from trash covering 10 million square miles of ocean surface.