Why does trash collect into large masses within the ocean like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Why do they STAY in those collected positions together anyways, what's stopping waste from just leaving the mass at any point? What's keeping the trash from going underwater, especially considering how waste can go all the way down to the Mariana trench? How do trash islands move together as a large body?
There's just so many individual movements that need to be calculated between different trash bodies alongside movements within the ocean that it's hard to imagine all the factors coming together to create a larger, consistent mass. #science