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>> this is why when i go to trader joes, i have my own bag now? >> absolutely. >> we're talking about those bags coming back to haunt us? >> those bags, children's toys, anything you can think of that's made of plastic, if you look around your house or office, just imagine how much of that is plastic. >> where is it coming from? are some countries worse polluters than others? >> it's difficult to say what the source is of these vast garbage patches. some countries produce more waste than others. some waste comes from cruise lines or cargo ships. it tends to come from all of us since all of us ...

This is drawing attention to something that is largely an invisible issue for most people. the indian ocean garbage patch wasn't discovered until 2010 by groups going across the ocean to see if there was a garbage patch there. similar to a fairly well known garbage patch called the great pacific garbage patch. >> the cargo containers? >> i came up from philly on a train, and you see them along i-95 stacked. i'm reading a tremendous number of them fall overboard? they're a part of the garbage picture you're describing? >> right, exactly. cargo ships, cruise liners and again, just about every ri...

>> yeah, sean, this is not very hopeful. but oceanographers say they have something called a gire, as basically a toilet bowl that doesn't touch. so basically circulating rotating water. some environmental lists say this is like a garbage patch in the sea. where the surface is, the edge of the indian ocean. >> all right, next question, the black box locater has been sent on an australian ship for the plane, just really quickly tell us what that is. >> okay, this can be towed behind the ship to basically listen for the ping from the black box. so only as long as the black box -- >> supposed to ...

Best people you can, and with radar, studying it, much of it is technological, a lot of it is art. knowing what to look for, particularly in this situation, where you had the transponder turned off, and you were dealing with raw primary returns. >> let me bring into this conversation mark anania. you said this is like looking for a needle in a garbage patch. i have been amazed time and again at these reports, oh, no, this was just garbage, in terms of how much garbage is in the ocean. speak to that issue. >> well, we're finding out every day just how much more garbage there is, not only in the...

It floats there for tens, maybe hundreds of years it stays in the ocean. and what you can find there is really anything you've ever seen in a junkyard, right? it's all the way from floating beach balls to rubber duckies to maybe fishing gear to things like refrigerators. everything that is buoyant enough not to sink will just stay on the ocean there. >> floating garbage patch. erik van sebille, thank you so much for your insight this morning. >> we'll have more on the latest for the search as well as the other top headlines, a lot happening in the world, right after the break. co: i've always ...