I was unaware that the world's largest landfill is actually floating in the Pacific Ocean, stretches from the coast of California to Japan, is twice the size of Texas and the trash is 90 feet deep in some places. The majority (90%) of the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" is made up of plastic that ended up in the ocean from locations as far away as Iowa, mostly as a result of littering. This crap patch is killing plankton, sea turtles and beluga whales. Beluga are dying form breast cancer that scientists believe is caused by the chemicals in the plastic waste. (It is kind of scary how much plastic we surround ourselves with.) So gross and easy to solve. I hate litterers, who do they think is supposed to pick up their mess? Octopus apparently.
I was unaware that the world's largest landfill is actually floating in the Pacific Ocean, stretches from the coast of California to Japan, is twice the size of Texas and the trash is 90 feet deep in some places. The majority (90%) of the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" is made up of plastic that ended up in the ocean from locations as far away as Iowa, mostly as a result of littering. This crap patch is killing plankton, sea turtles and beluga whales. Beluga are dying form breast cancer that scientists believe is caused by the chemicals in the plastic waste. (It is kind of scary how much plastic we surround ourselves with.) So gross and easy to solve. I hate litterers, who do they think is supposed to pick up their mess? Octopus apparently.
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