Plastic in our Oceans, and what any sailor can do

3:00 AM Fri 6 Aug 2010 GMT

'Rubbish on uninhabited shores' .

Imagine the massive breadth and spread of the country of France, or the state of Texas in the USA. Now imagine every milli-inch of that piled high with trash: bottle caps, cigarettes, cigarette lighters, tampon applicators, plastic nets, discarded flip flops, Frisbees, soda bottles, milk jugs, diapers, six-pack rings, busted tennis rackets, empty pens, shampoo bottles, empty squeeze bottles of jam, you name it. Now take that image, double it, and plunk into the water. That's what is floating around the eastern corner of a 10-million-square-mile oval known as the North Pacific subtropical gyre. Nicknamed the 'Eastern Garbage Patch,' this ...

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by Sailor for the Sea