Hmm….. I was going to mention the Skeptoid thing too, cause now I’m all confused.

The only “myth” Skeptoid seems to be addressing was that the North Pacific Gyre contains “a giant island of solid floating garbage twice the size of Texas in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.” (bolding mine)

And indeed, it isn’t an island of solid garbage. It’s more like a loose slurry of suspended particulates. In the video, it’s the stuff in the bottle that he shows to Governor Schwarzenegger and his wife @ the 4:40 mark. In short: It’s real trash. It’s a real problem. It’s not an island of garbage visible from space.

Go to wikipedia and look up the lists of population and land area by country. Divide the total population by the total land area (minus Antarctica, or not, as you wish).

Next look up the historical definition of an acre.

Ice cream won’t make you feel better, but it tastes delicious.