The microplastics that make up the pacific garbage patch are kept there by a series of ocean currents called the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre and are drawn into the center of the fringes of the gyre where they are concentrated into these garbage patches
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u/IMx03 Aug 12 '21
Micro plastics are everywhere. It wouldn’t be a garbage patch if it was made of micro plastics. It would just the the ocean.