Plastic Vortex of DOOOOOOOOM

Seriously, this is freaky. Is anybody doing anything about this?

Plastic Vortex Menaces Pacific Sealife

A trash heap that grow to the size of Texas?! Oh, my. In a few years will Californians be able to walk to Hawaii on a pile of junk?

I hope someone else does a study on this. I think Greenpeace is viewed as an extremist group sometimes, and I would like to see this get some more mainstream attention and research.