I recently saw a very informative documentary on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch; an enormous mass made up off pieces of plastic waste that expands from just off the coast of Cali to China.... yeah I know.... WOW!!!
This plastic cap is floating around in our ocean and it was created by all the plastic waste that we humans dispose of irresponsibly everyday.
Check out this clip from a segment on Good Morning America that explains this extremely unfortunate phenomenon: