The Pacific Ocean Is Now "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch"

The Pacific Ocean Is Now "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch"

Most people do not realize that our reckless polluting has turned the Pacific Ocean into "the Great Pacific Garbage Patch" which is a "plastic soup" of trash, plastic, garbage and human waste an area about twice the size of the continental United States that stretches from Hawaii to Japan.

We are literally destroying the Pacific Ocean and the situation is getting rapidly worse every single hour of every single day.

Someday historians will look back on our time and will refer to us as "those crazy Plastic People".

We take things like plastic and nylon and polyester for granted today.

But look at what we have done.

This "garbage vortex" occupies a large and relatively stationary region in the north Pacific Ocean and it is filled with millions of pounds of our trash, most of it plastic.

It is the largest landfill in the world, and it floats in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

It is estimated that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch contains over 100 million tons of debris.

One of the most frightening things about all of this is that plastic does not biodegrade. That means that it just sits there and all of the new garbage that comes along daily just adds to the problem.....

[link to futurestorm.blogspot.com]