What is the Pacific Garbage Gyre?

• The Pacific Garbage Gyre formed gradually as a result of marine pollution gathered by oceanic currents.
• Large and stationary bound by the North Pacific Gyre, the gyre's rotational pattern draws in waste material from across the North Pacific Ocean, including ciastal waters off North America and Japan; wind driven surface currents gradually move floating debris towards the centre, trapping it in the region.
• Estimated to be twice the size of Texas. Can be debated as some have said that it is twice the size of the continental USA.