Despite its Hawaii-adjacent location, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a bad place to visit and you wouldn't want to live there... but there is PLENTY of room! According to a new study, the floating island of plastic debris is up to 88 THOUSAND TONS and an area of over SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND MILES! That's like FOUR CALIFORNIAS! As if that wasn't scary enough for anyone thinking of cleaning it up, here's one more horrifying stat for you: it's composed of one-point-eight TRILLION pieces of plastic!