That's the Pacific Gyre.

It's not just that gyre of plastic that I'm concerned about it's the gyre of plastic in the supermarket.

learned about the Pacific garbage patch and the gyre.

This picture you see here is the Great Pacific Gyre.

After 20 years, we see emerging the debris accumulation zone of the North Pacific Gyre.

I showed him and Maria a zooplankton trawl from the gyre north of Hawaii with more plastic than plankton.

I began talking with people who actually had been out to the gyre and were studying the plastic problem in the marine environment and upon doing so,

When you think about plastic pollution and the marine environment, we think about the Great Pacific Gyre, which is supposed to be a floating island of plastic waste.

These happen to go down to a vast South Pacific Gyre, where they spend most of their time and often end up getting hooked like this, or as bycatch.

Yet, even better news, unfortunately, is that there's a gyre in every ocean to the tune of 2.4 million pounds of plastic being dumped in our oceans every single hour.

Perhaps even worse is when it finds its way into our oceans, like in the great plastic gyre, where these materials are being mechanically broken into smaller and smaller bits, but they're not really going away.

And my intention was to go out to the gyre, raise awareness about this issue and begin to pick up the plastic, chip it into little bits and cold mold it into bricks that could potentially be used as building materials in underdeveloped communities.

There was another unusual boat out there at the same time, doing as I was doing, bringing awareness to the North Pacific Garbage Patch, that area in the North Pacific about twice the size of Texas, with an estimated 3.5 million tons of trash in it, circulating at the center of that North Pacific Gyre.

And it ended up in the Boise River and then on to the Columbia River and then to the mouth of the Columbia and to the Pacific Ocean and then on to this place called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch which is this giant Pacific gyre in the North Pacific, where a lot of this plastic ends up floating around and then back onto the lagoon.