GARBAGE, GARBAGE EVERYWHERE

Oceanographers are claiming that there is a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean between San Francisco and Hawaii. Dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the heap of debris is said to weigh around 3.5 million tons and consists of about 80 percent plastic garbage. Supposedly most of the non-biodegradable trash that ends up in the oceans are sucked into this area by a combination of wind and waves, making the trash heap grow with each passing year. Even worse, there is probably nothing we can do to remove the trash as no single country will take responsibility for it and the clean up would take an international effort which would cost billions of dollars. So stop throwing your plactic crap in the ocean, okay? (SF Gate)