Bigger than 2 Texases (which I think is a big as 1 Alaska), there’s a mass of plastic and Styrofoam (where the bottles you recycle goes) and it’s called something like the North Pacific Gyre Plastic Garbage Patch Kids. No Virgina — you can’t see it from space, probably because most plastic looks like clear water or white-capped waves. It also goes deep — like to the ocean floor — where fish and other creatures live in the Styrofoam cups.
Finally this sublime disgrace is making the mainstream news, but indie media VBS covered it 16 months ago (ok, VBS is owned by Viacom, so I guess they aren’t too indie).
And here’s an article that showed up via Reuters this week: Scientists study huge plastic patch in Pacific.
