Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletter to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists.The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest accumulation of plastic in the world,

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, or GPGP for short, isn't exactly what you might have heard. It's not a floating garbage land-mass twice the size of Texas that you can settle, even though it kind of already has its own currency (called Debris),

Nonprofit environmental organization The Ocean Cleanup has announced that it's on track to eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2034. That is — if it has the necessary funds to do so. In a recent press release,