Someday historians will look back on our time and will refer to us as "those crazy Plastic People".
We take things like plastic and nylon and polyester for granted today.
But look at what we have done.
We have created the largest garbage dump in the world in the Pacific ocean.
An area about twice the size of the continental United States that stretches from Hawaii to Japan is filled with a "plastic soup" of trash, plastic, garbage and human waste.
How could we do this?
How could we be so immoral and destructive?
What will we tell our children?
You can read more about this incredible phenomenon in the article referenced below:
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A "plastic soup" of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said.
The vast expanse of debris – in effect the world's largest rubbish dump – is held in place by swirling underwater currents. This drifting "soup" stretches from about 500 nautical miles off the Californian coast, across the northern Pacific, past Hawaii and almost as far as Japan. Charles Moore, an American oceanographer who discovered the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" or "trash vortex", believes that about 100 million tons of flotsam are circulating in the region. Marcus Eriksen, a research director of the US-based Algalita Marine Research Foundation, which Mr Moore founded, said yesterday: "The original idea that people had was that it was an island of plastic garbage that you could almost walk on. It is not quite like that. It is almost like a plastic soup. It is endless for an area that is maybe twice the size as continental United States."
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