Sea of Trash

Listen to this. In the Pacific ocean there is a Gyre ( the north pacific Gyre). A Gyre is a place that is not effected by ocean currents and is kind of a stagnant portion of ocean with not much going on. Anyhow, in the pacific there is this monster Gyre that is out there floating in the ocean and it is completely filled with plastic. It is a composit of human waste over the last hundred years or so. Its hard to explain the magnitude of this Gyre, here is a pic of a dead bird:


"Bottle caps and other plastic objects are visible inside the decomposed carcass of this Laysan albatross on Kure Atoll, which lies in a remote and virtually uninhabited region of the North Pacific. The bird probably mistook the plastics for food and ingested them while foraging for prey."



Check out these article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pacific_Gyre
http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Moore-Trashed-PacificNov03.htm


Unreal...