If this were anything more than hype and scare tactics, there would be hi-res pictures and video. Such would be trivial to obtain given the bajillions of dollars "Green" research gets nowadays.

If anything, there may be a section of the Pacific which has a higher than normal amount of debris.

Its stories like these that are turning people off of the "green movement". Environmentalists' hyperbole is just like the Boy Who Cried Wolf.