I heard about this on the news this morning and had to look it up and there it was. A giant trash heap in in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and San Francisco and it has been growing since the 1950's. How come the watch dogs do not talk about this? Why are we focusing on the "land based" problems and not the whole, ugly situation?
It says: A looming environmental threat the size of Texas should be hard to miss, but when that threat is floating in a rarely-visited section of the Pacific Ocean and composed of a diffuse mass of plastic, it's easy for it to avoid public attention. The recent establishment of a marine preserve north of the Hawaiian Islands has refocused attention on this floating refuse heap, which has picked up the moniker the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
(sorry, I do not know how to do the "trick" method of look here
, still learning my way around the keyboard)
I guess this problem isn't as big of a money maker as going green. If it was, I am sure it would have been addressed and ALL over the news for the last couple of years.
Oceanic Trash heap?
Re: Oceanic Trash heap?
