the Eastern Garbage Patch

Here’s a garbage dump that is in one place, 100 feet deep and larger than the United States:

Can you figure out where it is without clicking on the link?

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/07/16/the_world_s_worst_ongoing_disasters?page=0,4

I was going to call this ‘Trivia’ but appears it is not trivial.

I’m sure there will be others who declare that it A) does not exist, or B) was not created by humans