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The Ocean's Biggest Garbage Pile Is Full of Floating Life
In 2019, French swimmer Benoit Lecomte swam more than 300 nautical miles through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to raise awareness about marine plastic pollution.
As he swam, he was often surprised to find that he was not alone.
“Every time I saw plastic debris floating, there was life all around it,” Lecomte said.
The patch was less a garbage island than a garbage soup of plastic bottles, fishing nets, tires and toothbrushes. And floating at its surface were blue dragon nudibranchs, Portuguese man-o-wars and other small surface-dwelling animals, which are collectively known as neuston.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/oceans-biggest-garbage-pile-full-183459525.html
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but if WE introduced it, we would probably fuck that up too. 
