The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, sometimes called the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch and the Pacific Garbage Vortex, is a floating garbage patch that collected in the gyre subtropical North Pacific, which is located in the middle of two high pressure zones between Hawaii and California. The majority of trash, also called marine debris, present in the area is plastic, but items made from other materials such as glass and rubber are also present. Although the trash patch is too large and goes too deep below the ocean surface for scientists to determine exactly how much trash it contains, they have collected up to 750,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometer (CITE). This type of debris floating in the ocean is dangerous for several reasons. One of the important reasons is that marine animals confuse certain waste, particularly plastics, with food (CITE). Another reason why floating debris is so dangerous is that it can block sunlight from reaching deeper levels of the ocean, and thus remove the energy source of many autotrophs like algae....