Great Lakes Filled With Plastic Bits

Well, of course. They used to let the Cuyahoga River catch fire once in a while to burn off all those hydrocarbons flowing into Lake Erie. With no more fires, that stuff hits the frigid waters of the Great Lakes and solidfies.

/Yes, I'm joking.

It's tree huger lies. It's not really plastic. It's a fragment of Al Gores imagination.

Just like global warming and air pollution. It doesn't exist.

Something strange has been happening on Wolfe Island. There is a huge net being stretched from Wolfe Island to Cape Vincent NY (the mouth of the St. Lawrence River). Apparently the Chinese have a permit to capture all the plastic that flows out of the Great Lakes. They take the all the plastic refuse and ship it to China in containers where it is converted to usable products that they then sell back to us. Apparently, both the Canadian and American governments think it is a good deal. The Chinese clean the plastic from the lakes and Walmart gets cheap products to sell back to us. We then toss it away after use and they continue to recycle. Perfect solution.
The fish taken by the Chinese are released unharmed (mostly).

Quick! Move to Antarctica before it's too late!

Can't we pay trawlermen/women to fish for junk ?

No idea what could be done with the catch, but it sounds better than people out of a job due to over-fished seas migrating to a job that's new to them. Levy a tax on boats to pay for it (don't worry, the cost will pass on to everyone), and we might just get around to cleaning up our own ****. Just lamenting the fact is a bit like Eeyore mulling over his busted shack.