Right now, Lindsay and I are at home with our brand new baby, enjoying a nice summer break from podcasting while we get used to life with the new little dude.

We'll be back in the fall with new episodes, but in the meantime, we wanted to share with you one of our favorite episodes about plastic trash in the ocean.

You may know already that an enormous amount of trash ends up in the oceans, and once it gets there, it doesn't just disappear.

It goes on a long, trash journey.

We're a lot of it eventually winds up in the great Pacific garbage patch, which isn't quite as cute as it sounds.

Finally, not someplace you want to go on vacation.

I should go ahead and give it a listen, and I hope you're enjoying a trash-free summer at the beach.

I'm Lindsay.

And I'm Marshall. Welcome to Tumble, the show where we explore stories of science discoveries.

Today, we're talking about the great Pacific garbage patch.

We'll explore how the trash we throw away ends up in the ocean, and how scientists are studying what happens to it.

And is it possible to clean it all up?

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Ila is a listener from Hawaii who loves the ocean and is worried about ocean pollution.

I want to see if I can help out with stopping pollution because I really want to do that.

Ila's mom told us whenever they go to the beach, they pick up trash together, but Ila wants to know about the trash that gets into the water.

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