Shuroki Online

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is

…a heap of debris floating in the Pacific that’s twice the size of Texas, according to marine biologists.

The enormous stew of trash – which consists of 80 percent plastics and weighs some 3.5 million tons, say oceanographers – floats where few people ever travel, in a no-man’s land between San Francisco and Hawaii.

After reading that description, I thought perhaps it was some corporate conspiracy of ocean dumping, but its not. Its just a matter of the wind patterns and circular water currents creating the “perfect environment for trapping” all of the plastic junk in the pacific.

Most of the stuff comes from land, getting sent down storm drains, or trash being left on beaches.

This is just mind boggling.. twice the size of Texas!! Wowza.

Link to San Francisco Chronic article.