It seems an expedition of 2012 which included the NOAA did confirm this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch#cite_note-PhD-52 https://en.w

It seems an expedition of 2012 which included the NOAA did confirm this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch#cite_note-PhD-52 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch#ci...