Ted Reckas
Great visualization of how garbage travels throughout all the gyres. And there’s an Arctic garbage patch too.

Turns out garbage circulates through all the ocean gyres, meaning a piece of plastic could start out in California, drift into the North Pacific garbage patch, then, in a number of years, makes its way into the South Pacific garbage patch, and eventually the South Atlantic garbage patch after that.

And there's another gyre collecting plastic into a garbage patch in the Arctic too. That raises the total to 6 garbage patches. I wouldn't be surprised if our friends at 5 Gyres already have an expedition planned.

Read more about the discoveries made by researchers at University of New South Wales, Australia, here.