The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 4 to 16 times bigger than previously thought 😥 The area is now roughly FOUR times the size of California and is made up of an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of garbage 👎 This picture shows the stomach contents of a sea turtle near the patch. Some sea turtles were eating so much plastic that it made up around three-quarters of their diet! This is caused by the plastic in the garbage patch which eventually disintegrates into tiny particles that often get eaten by fish and may ultimately enter our food chain 😔 How can you help to reduce plastic? #4Ocean #OceanConservation #GreatPacificGarbagePatch #ConservationConversation #JoinTheMovement 📸: @theoceancleanup