Pacific rubbish dump twice the size of America

analysis
Feb 8, 20081 min

This is frightening story from London's Daily Mail.... A rubbish dump twice the size of the United States has been discovered floating in the Pacific Ocean. The vast expanse of debris, made up of plastic junk including footballs, kayaks, Lego blocks and carrier bags, is kept together by swirling underwater currents. It stretches from 500 nautical miles off the Californian coast, across the northern Pacific, past

This is frightening story from London’s Daily Mail….

A rubbish dump twice the size of the United States has been discovered floating in the Pacific Ocean.

The vast expanse of debris, made up of plastic junk including footballs, kayaks, Lego blocks and carrier bags, is kept together by swirling underwater currents.

It stretches from 500 nautical miles off the Californian coast, across the northern Pacific, past Hawaii and almost as far as Japan.

And here’s another link on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

How did we get into this mess? More importantly how do we fix it?