The Other Oil Spill

The North Pacific isn’t the only ocean where plastic trash is accumulating by the ton. Marine scientists just back from the North Atlantic say it’s full of plastic too, and it might just be worse.

You may have heard of the plastic trash vortex in the North Pacific Ocean. It’s a region where wind and ocean currents cause plastic to accumulate by the ton. But it turns out that the North Pacific isn’t the only ocean with a plastic problem. Host Jeff Young talks with Giora Proskurowski, an oceanographer with the Sea Education Association, about his recent exploration of the plastic vortex in the North Atlantic.