[ajoy39]

They're not saying it doesn't exist, they're saying it's been exaggerated to death to the point where the actual thing doesn't resemble the myth at all. There is no floating trash island, it's not "twice the size of texas", and in fact as stated in the article no scientifically sound estimates to it's size exist. The story was told as basically an iceberg of trash the size of a continent in the middle of the ocean and that's not at all what it really is. It exists, it's a problem, but it's not the mythical thing it's made out to be.