Your trash is like a ship on the ocean ...

I'd like to take this time to refer back to a previous post of mine involving the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. I wrote about this phenomena several months ago and it seemed the post went relatively unnoticed. In fact, for several years people have been ignoring this glaring and obvious problem off our coast. Thank goodness for Good Morning America- this morning the ABC news magazine featured the great swell of garbage and the incredible increase in plastic trash over the past five years. Scientists in charge of researching the cause and clean up of the garbage patch say that little can be done to fix the problem, except for a change in human behavior and years of clean up efforts by volunteers and skilled divers.

Here's a link to a web site dedicated to the Great Garbage Patch.

Does it baffle anyone else that we have such a huge mass of human waste in the ocean that it now has a name?

This photo is a great example of the currents that pick-up, then drag refuse into the belly of our largest ocean.




I found the photo doing a google search of the Garbage Patch, it comes from a blog titled "I Feel It, Too" and they give a wonderful explanation of the heap twice the size of the state of Texas.

Can I finally get some outrage on this topic, guys? Is anyone else thoroughly disgusted by all of this? I shed a tear watching boating nets snare catches of fish with bellies full of plastic bits. It's so easy to ignore the problem when it's collecting thousands of miles off the coast of California and Japan, but it's there and now it's in our food chain.

If we are what we eat, we're trash.

More to come later.
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