RE: Massive garbage patch discovered in Atlantic Ocean; 1,000 miles long
"For all of you that think this is no issue you total idiots as this has huge impact on animal life and water cleanliness." - no it doesn't. The concentrations are ineffective with the possible exception of the very central few hundred meters (in an ocean of millions of square miles) and not much sea life is living there other than phytoplankton that are unaffected.
"It's a problem because animal life ingests it and dies." - please cite your study proving that statement. I know of no properly reviewed study showing ingestion deaths from microscopic plastic bits. Your statement sounds alot like a specious modification of a real study in which people haters changed the facts to fit their agenda. The target at that time was plastic bags and those ring thingys that sixpacks are held with.
In fact the single biggest killer of sea life is plastic fishing nets and lines that get away from their owners and drift about the sea. Fact.
