Plants and animals living on the great Pacific Garbage Patch

[Catherine]

Until now the garbage patches that have formed in the ocean were considered dead zone devoid of life. It has been discovered that the Pacific Garbage POatch has plants and animals living on it.  A number of coastal species have succeeded in colonizing the plastic island.

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/new...tic-island

What this means ecologically is unknown. What effect this will have on the rest of the ocean is unknown. What will actually happen to the garbage patch and its new inhabitants is unknown. So what do we know? We know that we have no idea what will happen here.
When we decided to dump tons of plastics into the oceans we became part of a giant experiment whose outcome is totally unknown to us. Since we cannot reverse the damage we have done, we just have to live through the results of this "experiment" and hope it is not too bad.