Summary of paragraph "The great pacific garbage patch"

In the Pacific Ocean there's an area called the Northern Pacific Gyre. Here ocean currents come together and move in a large circle. The currents collect garbage. People call it the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Eighty percent of it comes from land. Garbage floats down rivers and streams and into the ocean. Plastic bags are carried out to sea with the wind. Then ocean currents carry all of this garbage to the great garbage patch. A sailor discovers the patches in 1997, when sailing near Hawaii. He suddenly found himself traveling through waters filled with garbage. He calculated that there were more than 3 million tons of plastic floating in the water. All of this garbage is hurting the environment. Plastic attract poisons and most of them is not biodegradable.