This disturbing video from NASA shows the effects of the vast amounts of rubbish thrown into the world's oceans. Courtesy NASA Scientific Visualisation Studio

HAVE you ever wondered just how much rubbish is out at sea? Well whatever you imagined the reality is much worse.

NASA have released a new video showing the devastating effects of just what happens to all the rubbish thrown out to sea, reports The Mirror.

Deep on the ocean floor computer generated images show the build up of five enormous ‘garbage islands’.

NASA tracked the movements of floating scientific buoys, distributed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, over the past 35 years, taking into account how long each one had been in the water and where it came from.

The naturally occurring ocean currents collect them into five main areas — where the garbage piles are. However because around 70 per cent of rubbish sinks it’s not entirely clear just how big the rubbish piles are.

NASA also simulated a computer model of thousands of particles adrift at seas and they also gravitated to the rubbish piles.

No doubt conservationists will be extremely worried by this latest clip which poses a serious threat to marine life.