Volume of Trash in the Pacific... Disturbing

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Anyway, yes it is disturbing. Apparently a swirling mass of plastic. Imagine all the nice plastic water bottles with the caps still on and empty just floating around. Here on the east coast when the darn plastic applicators for those nice femamine deal wash up on the NJ shore they are called beach whistles.

If it was just plastic bottles with their caps on clean up would be a snap.

Unfortunatly were talking not only large pieces / bottles but also pieces down to microscopic in size. It is these microscopic pieces which make up the major threat.

Most fish and invertibrates will not try to swallow a gallon jug, however a piece of plastic the size of a grain of sand can and do get ingested inadverntantly.