The BBC reports that an area where garbage is accumulating in the Atlantic ocean has been discovered. The region is said to be similar to the great Pacific garbage patch.
Kara Lavender Law of the Sea Education Association told the BBC that the issue of plastics had been "largely ignored" in the Atlantic.
She announced the findings of a two-decade-long study at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Portland, Oregon, US.
The work is the conclusion of the longest and most extensive record of plastic marine debris in any ocean basin.
The scientists said the area of garbage in the Atlantic was "widely dispersed and it's small pieces of plastic" but it covers a very large area. You can read more about it here.
