Moore cannot answer the biggest question. what can we do about it? the patch is too big and too deep to clean up. Even if someone could remove all today]s plastic from the ocean ,new garbage could soon take its place. people will not stop using plastic. In fact, many plastic items, such as knives and forks, are designed to be disposable. as cities near the Pacific grow bigger, the amount washing into the ocean grows too. for now, Moore can only gather facts about the Great Garbage Patch and make sure the world can pays attention to this serious environmental problem.