The reality of the great pacific garbage patch You'll never hear anyone say this EVER, but it is the truth: Barnacles absolutely WILL grow on whatever is floating. They can be very large. Then other critters like clams will start living on whatever is floating. Barnacles and clams have a larval stage where they will find floating objects and attach, where they will usually stay for life. Eventually anything floating will crust over like a coral reef and sink. How long will that take? Definitely no more than 10 years for things like bottles and containers. The Pacific garbage patch, IF it even exists, will self clean in about a decade and NOTHING that lives at the depths the garbage will sink to will care. I call B.S. on the entire concept. The oceans absolutely will clean themselves. http://82.221.129.208/