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    It’s no island: How the Pacific ‘garbage patch’ was exaggerated

    Reporter Charlie Gillis on how Oprah.com and others overstated the notorious Great Pacific Garbage Patch

    Maclean's
    <p>April 02, 2008 Long Beach, California Charles Moore holds a tray of debris collected on a beach in Hawaii washed ashore from the &#8220;Great Pacific Garbage Patch&#8221; , a floating garbage dump about the size of Australia created by Pacific currents.<br /> Photographer &#8211; Jonathan Alcorn/Bloomberg News</p>

    April 02, 2008 Long Beach, California Charles Moore holds a tray of debris collected on a beach in Hawaii washed ashore from the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” , a floating garbage dump about the size of Australia created by Pacific currents.

    Read Charlie’s article “Trashing the island” from the January 31 issue of Maclean’s

    tags:Great Pacific Garbage Patch