Hidden, a 3.5 Million Trash Heap Lies in the Ocean

The world's largest trash dump doesn't sit on some barren field outside an urban center. It resides thousands of miles from any land — in the Pacific Ocean. Bottle caps, soap bottles, laundry baskets and shards of plastic are just a few things that float in the ocean's vastness. Known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the "dump" is composed mainly of plastic, which isn't biodegradable. Instead, the plastic breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces in the patch that extends thousands of...Full Story