One can only imagine what would happen if images of this immense garbage mass was on national television news just once a year.
An unbelievably huge floating island of trash has some compelling visual impact, don't you think? Worth it to acquire an airplane or satelite photograph, and maybe tell the bloody country that's causing it about it?
Great Pacific Garbage Patch - a heap of debris floating in the Pacific that's twice the size of Texas, according to marine biologists.
80 percent plastics and weighs some 3.5 million tons, say oceanographers
The patch has been growing, along with ocean debris worldwide, tenfold every decade since the 1950s, said Chris Parry, public education program manager with the California Coastal Commission in San Francisco.
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