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The Garbage Patch isn't a floating island, it's a region where microscopic particles of garbage are more common per cubic meter of water than usual.

In theory, yes. But it would also destroy all ocean life, with perhaps the very tiny exception of the ecosystems around deep-ocean thermal vents.

But, as another post has explained that this isn't what the ocean-plastics are. They would be better described as a thin soup, or cloud, of tiny plastic particles dispersed over hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of ocean, down to depths of up to 100m.

You could've perfected this comment if you mentioned that you toss your own shopping bags into the ocean to fight global warming.

technically true but still a horrible idea