Oceans of Garbage
August 17th, 2006
The largest dump in the world isn’t outside New York or London or Shanghai but in a desolate stretch of the Pacific Ocean nearly a thousand miles from the nearest island. Held together by a slowly rotating system of currents northeast of Hawaii, the Eastern Garbage Patch is more than just a few floating plastic bottles washed out to sea; the Patch is a giant mass of trash-laden water nearly double the size of Texas.
The Eastern Garbage Patch is just the most obvious manifestation of the amount of pollution filling the seas. Even though seventy percent of plastic items will eventually sink, the UNEP estimates there are 46,000 pieces of marine debris for every square mile of all the world’s oceans. Nearly four fifths of this garbage has been carried from litter on land, washed into storm drains, or floated down rivers.
The problem, of course, is plastic and its nearly complete resistance to the elements. Able to last indefinitely in seawater, plastics will continue to plague the Eastern Pacific long after new solutions have been adopted on land.
The LA Times’ five-part series on pollution in the ocean.
Related Posts: Designing Against Bycatch, Seafood Watch, Exportation and Explotation of E-Waste
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Update: I wasn’t able to find a good picture of the Garbage Patch itself, instead falling back on the visual consequences to marine wildlife seen above. As for maps, Google Earth seems to focus on undersea geography instead of surface events.
Update: 
Link to a kmz illustrating Part 4 of 5 of “Altered Oceans” anyway.—ed. Jessica
Update: Congrats to the L.A. Times which won a Pulitzer Prize for its story, including coverage of the Eastern Garbage Patch. Meanwhile, Digg.com users have marked the article as possibly innaccurate.
August 17th, 2006 at 9:41 pm
Great series, extensive with lots of media too. Thanks for the linkage.
August 17th, 2006 at 9:43 pm
Altered Oceans…
LAtimes.com is running a fantastic web series on the destruction of the ocean. The overall quality is not quite discovery channel, but interesting none the less. One of the stories from the series of the Eastern Garbage Patch, a…...
August 18th, 2006 at 12:40 am
Any Google Earth location?
August 18th, 2006 at 12:44 am
In this blog, see also:
http://www.vestaldesign.com/blog/2006/01/lost-and-found-fish.html
and
http://www.vestaldesign.com/blog/2006/01/plastics-as-marine-pollution.html
August 18th, 2006 at 3:32 am
So.. does anyone have any google earth pictures of this massive area? Where is it?
August 18th, 2006 at 3:36 am
Great, like I really needed something else to worry about…
Hmmm…
August 18th, 2006 at 4:09 am
[...] “The largest dump in the world isn’t outside New York or London. Held together by a slowly rotating system of currents northeast of Hawaii, the Eastern Garbage Patch is more than just a few floating plastic bottles washed out to sea; the Patch is a giant mass of trash-laden water nearly double the size of Texas.”read more | digg story [...]
August 18th, 2006 at 4:34 am
Google Earth this and it will spread virally!
August 18th, 2006 at 4:49 am
[...] An entry by Jeffrey Goodman :: [...]
August 18th, 2006 at 5:38 am
Turns out this is just a load of crap – Literally!
It doesn’t exist! URBAN LEGEND.
There is no google earth link because there is nothing “larger than texas” floating in the ocean!
funny story though, makes you think twice about tossing that condom overboard next time..
August 18th, 2006 at 7:54 am
URBAN LEGEND??? I wish I could blow this mass of trash off just that easy. But it’s true people. Wake up and smell the trash. This has been going on for awhile now. First time i heard about was like 5 years ago.
August 18th, 2006 at 7:59 am
A link to a map of the location is:
http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Trashing-Oceans-Plastic4nov02.htm
August 18th, 2006 at 9:21 am
Do what New New York (Futurama) did, collect it and send it into outer space. Though we’ll need a smell-o-scope to track it.
August 18th, 2006 at 10:03 am
Quite possibly not an urban legend, but look at the website at mindfully.org. I’m not trying to minimize the impact of this stuff, but they really try to hit those emotional buttons with statements like “a million pieces of plastic per square mile” (at the center of the “gyre”).
A quick calculation shows that that’s less than 1 piece of plastic per 25 square feet (per square 5 feet on a side). At the maximum concentration in the middle.
Not exactly consonant with the pictures shown, is it?
No wonder there’s no google shots of this. You’d probably barely be able to tell from orbit.
August 18th, 2006 at 10:08 am
[...] Bob Grimac, Al Gore, and Ed Begley Jr should get excited over a floating mass of garbage almost twice as large as Texas! We could move hordes of environmental nuts to their very own recycled continent in international waters away from the non-environmental nuts in the White House. [...]
August 18th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
[...] “The largest dump in the world isn’t outside New York or London. Held together by a slowly rotating system of currents northeast of Hawaii, the Eastern Garbage Patch is more than just a few floating plastic bottles washed out to sea; the Patch is a giant mass of trash-laden water nearly double the size of Texas.”read more | digg story [...]
August 18th, 2006 at 7:33 pm
While Google Earth does not have high-res imagery for the Oceans, it’s still a fantastic tool to understand scale. I’ve created a kmz file using images and text from the LA Times’ Part 4 of 5 which deals with large swirls of garbage in the Pacific Ocean. (Maybe if I get some more time, I will create kmz’s for the rest of the series.)
For more cool things people are doing with Google Earth, check out our Google Earth Notables page.
August 19th, 2006 at 2:11 am
[...] Vestal Design verweist auf den sog. Eastern Garbage Patch. Dies ist eine Umschreibung für eine Region im pazifischen Ozean, in der, bedingt durch die dort vorherrschenden Strömungsverhältnis, massenhafte Ansammlungen von Plastikmüll zusammengetrieben werden. Zu den Folgen siehe auch hier und hier. Ebenfalls interessant, aber Flash only, ist der Hinweis auf die mehrteilige Serie in der LA Times. [...]
August 19th, 2006 at 8:24 am
dkraft’s comment about ‘urban legend’ was dead wrong.
“Eastern Garbage Patch” at Google:
http://www.google.com/search?hs=JX7&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Eastern+Garbage+Patch%22&btnG=Search
August 19th, 2006 at 11:35 am
Oceans of Garbage…
From VestalDesign: The largest dump in the world isn’t outside New York or London or Shanghai but in a desolate stretch of the Pacific Ocean nearly a thousand miles from the nearest island. Held together by a slowly rotating system…...
August 21st, 2006 at 6:55 pm
I remember crossing the Pacific about 18 years ago from Hawaii to Los Angeles and our 13 meter sailboat stopped dead in the water as we had hit a massive blue tarp that wrapped around the keel. I wondered what would be the chances of that happening unless there had to be huge existing amounts of trash already floating around.
August 22nd, 2006 at 3:50 am
For some reason, I am completley shocked by this. What is it going take to inspire the world to stop, and change? Perhaps knowing where to start…moving beyond the recycling bin onto bigger and higher impact measures.
August 22nd, 2006 at 10:43 am
It doesn’t take a scientist or a college professor… or a genious to be able to understand the condition of the planet and the consequenses ahead of us on this planet! What it does take is AWARENESS! Awareness indicates that we have poluted the air, land and sea (and the heavens) with so much garbage that our very existance as humans on this fragile eco-system (EARTH)is doomed along with all other forms of life that depend on AIR-EARTH-WATER sustanance for survival. It’s irreversable! There is only ONE solution for us now. PERIOD!
August 27th, 2006 at 12:57 am
[...] Oceans of GarbageThe largest dump in the world isn t outside New York or London or Shanghai but in a desolate stretch of the Pacific Ocean nearly a thousand miles from the nearest island. Held together by a slowly rotating system of currents northeast … [...]
August 29th, 2006 at 8:03 am
There is a similar area in the Atlantic, the Sargasso Sea. Used to be just seaweed, now also full of floating trash.
http://www.google.com/search?&q=Sargasso+Sea+trash
September 5th, 2006 at 12:26 am
[...] “The largest dump in the world isn’t outside New York or London. Held together by a slowly rotating system of currents northeast of Hawaii, the Eastern Garbage Patch is more than just a few floating plastic bottles washed out to sea; the Patch is a giant mass of trash-laden water nearly double the size of Texas.”read more | digg story September 05th, 2006 | Category: Environment News | [...]
November 10th, 2006 at 4:54 am
...The problem, of course, is plastic and its nearly complete resistance to the elements. Able to last indefinitely in seawater, plastics will continue to plague the Eastern Pacific long after new solutions have been adopted on land….
Here’s an idea, a total ban plastic production. Replace it with metal, wood, etc.. end of problem.
November 17th, 2006 at 6:13 am
[...] Things you can learn before 7:30 a.m.: 1. You know how if you throw rose petals or some other stupidity into your bathwater, then after a while all the bits clump together? Well, the Ocean is everyone’s bath, and maaaan, we throw some extra-stupid stuff in it. The Pacific Trash Vortex (or Eastern Garbage Patch) is a fairly well-known result of this, but there’s a better one, even though it is an urban-mythical exaggeration of a real problem (at least, it’s an exaggeration for now): The Great Condom Sargasso, a floating mass of used condoms at least 100 yards in diameter and 10 feet thick (some stories have it at two miles!), which overly-briney sailors claim is a hazard for ship navigation. The best part, though? The purported island of slimy latex (and probably dead fish) is claimed to be located at S. Lat. 52º and W. Long. 126º 43′. The Derleth interpretation of the real location of Ryleh, where Cthulhu will arise: S. Lat. 49º 51′, W. Long 128º 34′. Spawn of Tsuthoggua, indeed. 2. If there’s a hell for the current President, it will involve having a giant metal equals-sign shoved somewhere very uncomfortable every morning, then fighting in jungle trenches all day, only to find that, when it comes time to expel the equals sign, it has grown to twice its size and become a ≠. I say this because, while visiting Vietnam today and trying to act knowledgeable about it because he was able to point out the lake where his “good friend” John McCain was pulled out and then held hostage for five years, he gave the following answer to the inevitable question, “What lessons can Vietnam teach us about Iraq?” (Probably a question he should have answered one hell of a lot earlier than today!). [...]
February 3rd, 2007 at 9:04 am
Your article is very informative and helped me further.
Thanks, David
February 15th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
pick it all up and drop it in a active volcano
February 16th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
How ‘bout we build a plastic island bro’s, complete with grand stands so we can wacth surfers ride the 60 ft. waves off the Cortes Knolls.
March 10th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
Ruth says:——-
“A quick calculation shows that that’s less than 1 piece of plastic per 25 square feet (per square 5 feet on a side). At the maximum concentration in the middle.
Not exactly consonant with the pictures shown, is it?
No wonder there’s no google shots of this. You’d probably barely be able to tell from orbit.”——-
Well, Ruth, here’s the problem – neither of us are in orbit. All 6.x billion of us, save a handful at at time, are on this planet.
Even if the story had been that there was a remote area in the pacific where there is as much as 1 piece of plastic every 25 square feet – as you suggest – it would be a horrific representation of our priorities, and our short-sightedness as a civilization.
What’s more, take that 25 cubic feet of water, and see what else it contains besides that one piece of plastic. This is a remote area, remember. Are you suggesting that these are acceptable numbers? How bad does it have to get before it is so unacceptable that people will cease to look for a caveat, and start to look for a solution?
March 12th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
ok, ok, I believe that the story itself could be true, but if someone could post a link to some images, ya know… from a camera… that would surely add some validity to the story. Without exhausting myself I was unable to find one image except for the “mountain of trash” image of this odd happening. I am pretty sure that if this does exist, there should be some images available from others that have travelled this direction.
Howsabout Mr. Moore himself, he is looking into this on a scientific level is he not. He is trying to raise money to feed his mission is he not. Would that not be a little easier to do if he brought back a digicam full of images.
Sorry… I need more.
March 19th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
STOP POLLUTING THE AIR.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Hi Folks,
California is taking this very seriously. With the formation of the California Ocean Protection Council – a number of state agecies are attempting to address California marine debris that is growing at an alarming rate.
The thing about seeing it from an aerial photo is that much of the debris is less than 5mm in size, not all at the surface level. I have been doing research on thsi for the last two weeks on marine debris in California and trust me, the stats are frightening when you think…”food chain”
See the Web link above, provided by Greenpeace, it will show you the general area, and it seems there are some beaches in Japaqn that are almost knee-high in plastic trash.
Go to the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, they have a video; or go to Greenpeace, or the California Coastal Commission. There is plenty of information out there, maybe not a aerial photo (at least not yet), but do a little research – you’ll see. Plastic materials that breakdown – become part of the fod chain, etc., are being documented as endocrine disruptors. Its a very big deal.
Think about it every tme you take another plastic bag from the market, or toss a water bottle cap.
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Here is the link for the animated map
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:11 pm
One more time….
Here is the link for the animated map
http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/the-expedition/news/trashing-our-oceans/ocean_pollution_animation
April 18th, 2007 at 11:53 am
Here is video documentation of this issue from Google video.
April 18th, 2007 at 11:55 am
Sorry, here’s the link again, hope it works.
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=3892310789953943147&q=alphabet+soup&pr=goog-sl
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:02 pm
I just watched that google video and you can deffinately tell that there’s plenty of trash floating around in the water (above and below the surface). It’s pretty sickening when you think about it. If something isn’t done, it’s just going to get worse and this black hole of trash in the ocean is just going to destroy more perfectly good ocean. I know for a fact I’m sure not into swimming with that stuff on my next trip to the beach.
April 30th, 2007 at 8:10 am
Did you cut the turtle out of the net after you took the picture? if you didn’t Grrrrr…
May 1st, 2007 at 9:41 am
thanks, i really needed a load of crap for my project.This is a bunch of crapto fill up half a page.
May 6th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
i agree. drop it in an active volcano then, poof! no more
smelly, dirty yucky trash. But what happens when the are noactive volacoes left? let’s burn something! more items that are made should be biodegradeable. i’m
sick of trash. all that crap! it is bullsh***!
We should spend more money on saving the world than making make-up or new cars.
May 9th, 2007 at 10:57 am
pollution kills the air and our world…and the animals??!! the ocean is filled with garbage and killing the fish witch feeds us and others??think twice befor you throw garbage on th floor or in the water!!!u are killing me,you and animals so think twice befor u do something wrong!!!
May 9th, 2007 at 10:57 am
all this is crap go hump a chicken!!!!!!!!!!!
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May 19th, 2007 at 11:48 am
One guy on this blog said to use metal and wood instead of plastic and this would solve this problem…I disagree. Others have said to just burn the trash…I also disagree. I think the answer is that we need to change our lifestyles.
We need to consume less. Bring a reusable mug when you go to the coffee shop; patronize shops where you can buy in bulk and use the same container to refill; don’t buy something if you don’t truly need it; use reusable grocery bags; boycott places that use excessive packaging.
These are lifestyle changes, and take some practice. They will not solve all of our trash problems. But, these changes will help mitigate some of the impacts trash has on our world.
May 21st, 2007 at 5:06 pm
This is poopy poopy i luv marine animals and to me it is like torturing a coocoo burger (with french fries)
May 21st, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Come on guys! this isn’t a load of crap! I’m not totally sure about the garbage being twice the size of texas but they may be goings sumwhere! FACE DOWN, THE WAY I LIVE, WHAT I’VE DONE, OH YA!! GOSH SORRY I RUINED THE THOUGHTFUL DEEP MOMENT BUT LIVE WITH IT YOU ********
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:17 am
The pollution is just a cheap way to throw away garbage. hi kendall
May 29th, 2007 at 8:19 am
This is not a load of crap. Where do think all this garbage goes that can not be burned. Plastics are not biodegradable. It is also not edible for the marine life to consume. So Mr. Zylsta, You need to think before you speak.
This is a problem that needs to be fixed. It is the beginnig of the end of life as we know it.
May 29th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Hey horace, you dumb butt read it again I never said it was a load of crap and you can’t tell me what to say so don’t be a retard
May 30th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
hey guys i like dolphins and garbage sucks
June 12th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
U GUYS ARE INTERESTING LAMOS!
September 21st, 2007 at 2:40 pm
I can’t believe it – I have never know about this before – looked it up due to obscure reference on a TV program this evening and am shocked and horrified – I think more people need to bve made aware of this situation – I like to think I am reasonably clued up on environmental issues, but have NEVER heard of this before. Feel very sad :0(
October 19th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
First we need to deal our own giant mass of toxic crap that’s EXACTLY the size of Texas, and the tiny piece of it that floated all the way to Washington D.C.
November 6th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
A friend of mine is in the Pacific fleet and told me that the navy tends to keep track of this flooting junkyard due to the problems incurred with the intake baffles on a ship. As of 11-01-2007 the north west boundary of the “GPGP” (great pacific garbage patch) is located at:
35°12’11.74”N
165°11’31.94”W
He also informs me that YES it is probably 2X the size of texas, but the ocean currents constantly morf it’s shape. It consists of everything from those little styro pellets found in bean bag chairs to 5 gallon paint buckets and larger.
November 13th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
If there really is a dump-site the size of Texas, why can no one find the lat. and long. for this location? Texas is pretty large and I have no problem finding that on Google Earth. Why cant anyone find this site? Maybe because it doesnt exist?
November 28th, 2007 at 7:43 am
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December 5th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Thank you for the articles and the PICTURES! The pictures say far more than a thousand words. In reality how can we stop this madness? Let us know that also! Thank you.
January 4th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
[...] Trashed – Across the Pacific Ocean, Plastics, Plastics, Everywhere – Oceans of Garbage – Are There Really ‘Continents’ of Floating Garbage? – The plastic killing fields – [...]
January 27th, 2008 at 1:05 am
Pictures of the garbage patch.
http://l.yimg.com/www.flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif
January 27th, 2008 at 1:06 am
One more time:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59204382@N00/2056712238/
February 1st, 2008 at 8:59 am
we need to take care of what we have before its to late!
February 1st, 2008 at 9:03 am
Iam a 11th grader ..who is gettin a grade for studying this issue. i think DUMPING IS NOT THE ISSUE! WE AS PEOPLE NEED TO CHANGE WHAT WE DO WITH THE DUMPING! DUMPING DONT DUMP ITS SELF .WE DO IT.
February 1st, 2008 at 1:17 pm
I heard there’s creatures living on this patch.
February 6th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
ok why dont the just send the garbage in a rocket and blow it up in space??? how do they get the garbage out of the ocean?? make a huge net, tie weights and the bottoms of it and through it over, then pick it up bit by bit
SO WHAT IT COSTS OF 1 MILLION DOLLARS ASK CANADA OR THE UK
THIS IS OUR WORLD I WILL NOT STAND BY AND LET DESTRUCTION AND DEATH COME TO IT
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February 8th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
What right has the United States have to
dump their trash in the Pacific or any ocean.
They must know that it will not all sink to the
bottom and would travel.
I say US pickup your trash and dump it on
your own country as while were at it
keep your air pollution to yourself too
Fed up
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February 20th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
why is there not one picture of this garbage patch?
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:29 pm
I’ve vistited all those sites you have mentioned and there’s no proof on any of them. What there is is rhetoric and possible staged photos of rubbish that could have been taken anywhere. Where is the panoramic photo taken at ground/sea level of this humongous pollution stretching out as far as the eye can see? Answer so far is…. there isn’t one.
March 22nd, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Everybody has to put in there two cents. So after eighty opinions from every one from teen activists to middle aged low IQ’ers you might as well read this. This Garbage Island was discovered long before this website noticed it. And America had a global attitude beyond “Global warming is better than Global cooling”. There the same thing idiots. Heres a nod to you green fanatics, Duh, our lifestyles are obviosly driving our planet full speed to a DEAD END. But stop your elementary school “lifestyle changes are the only solution” rhetoric. We all know are over packaged materialism will bury us all. Words are next to worthless. Listen to the spin-Doctors that feed us all the lies in tasty one time happy meals. Here’s a different plan, Use the currently Destructive navy war ships in a non bullying capacity, to dredge the garbage island completely, trailing those massive over-fishing nets. Tow the garbage back to the harbor on barges, And re outfit a few dirty coal plants to burn the garbage cleanly for power. (The technology already exists). Thats it. Don’t even try and put bull-crap spin on this idea claiming impossible logistical hurdles. Bologna , Finally, repeat as necessary. There is nothing else to waste time jabbering about. And for those fanatics out ther write your congressman often, don’t blog the web, your just peeing into the wind. We’re all doomed, so do it right, or relax and watch the show.
April 1st, 2008 at 1:16 pm
I’m bothered by all the polution. Our once pristine beaches have become garbage dumps. I pick up daily garbage on our North West Pacific Beaches on Vancouver Island. This garbages bears bottles and plastic garbage with Russian, Taiwanese, Korean and Japanese script. Then there are the countless tampon cartridges, shotgun shells, bottlecaps, plastic waterbottles, foam meat-tray bits…”If we are not part of the solution to do something about it, then we are part of the PROBLEM”, don’t just blame big manufacturers because we are the ones supporting them!”
Something is “circulating” in the ocean. Have a look at my blog at what picked up at just one teeny beach in a single day…including an american flag!
http://beadcomber.blogspot.com/2008/03/trash-into-treasure.html
There are some artists considering at least some of the trash to become art. I started collecting a bucket full of colourful little plastic bits that look like mosaic tiles. Considering all the poor seabirds and mammals that are ingesting this stuff of no nutritional value is sad.
April 6th, 2008 at 11:04 am
trash in the water is bad. please keep our water clean!
April 19th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Lets stop he use of Plastic and take a step back in time, to the days of good old paper products. They proved to be a better bio-degradable product. With oil prices at their highest levels, it would be more ecomomic,for all. Please dont buy plastic, if you do then please recycle properly.
April 24th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
We need to put an end to trash on land and in the ocean. We need to do this in every country in the world. Every country in the world needs to recycle. Many countries do not get along but none of us like trash. There needs to be a worldwide summit on this issue.
April 24th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
We need to put an end to trash on the land and in the ocean. We need to do this in every country in the world. Every country in the world needs to recycle. Many countries do not get along but none of us like trash. There needs to be a worldwide summit on this issue.
May 10th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Lets not ignore what is fact: “The Garbage Patch is not a solid island, as some people believe, Moore said. Instead, it resembles a soupy mass, interspersed with large pieces of junk such as derelict fishing nets and waterlogged tires — “an alphabet soup,” he called it.
Also, it’s undetectable by overhead satellite photos because it’s 80 percent plastic and therefore translucent, Moore added. The plastic moves just beneath the surface, from one inch to depths of 300 feet, according to samples he collected on the most recent trip, he said.
By Moore’s estimation, the “floating landfill” is also simply too far from land to conduct any meaningful cleanup operation. It’s about 1,000 miles west of California and 1,000 miles north of the Hawaiian Islands — a week’s journey by boat from the nearest port. It swirls in a convergence zone located about 30 to 40 degrees north latitude and 135 to 145 west longitude” ....Here is the link to the full article. Again lets not ignore what is happening.
May 10th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
http://mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Pacific-Garbage-Patch30oct07.htm
May 19th, 2008 at 11:41 am
this website explains why there are no pics of the trash:
http://theoystersgarter.com/2007/10/23/why-there-are-no-pictures-of-the-north-pacific-trash-gyre
it ain’t no myth, people….face reality and lets do something about it.
May 20th, 2008 at 7:37 am
i so believe this is something else i have to worry about
any google pics of this site?
where is it?
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:58 am
Don’t worry about good old Mother Earth. She will still be here when we are long gone. She is bigger than all of us microbes.
June 1st, 2008 at 10:40 pm
I would like google earth coordinets as well please if any one knows them.
June 29th, 2008 at 8:39 am
Actually this is a very real place, and a very real situation. Here are the coordinates…
Johnston Island National Wildlife Refuge (Johnston Atoll)
16º44’26.22” N 169º30’30.33” W elev 0 ft
Just Go to Google Earth and use “Midway Atoll” There are numerous small islands that are plagued with these issues such as Bikini Atoll, Sand Island, etc.
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January 29th, 2009 at 9:40 am
OMG I can’t beleve this!!!
August 30th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Very interesting article!!!!
The depressing object is that there doesn’t appear to be any real solution regarding this floating garbage except for not making it worse. Personally, I have been declined as much as possible plastic bags when I don’t need one or when I have my big reusable bag for the grocery.
February 19th, 2010 at 12:43 am
Land is only 1/4 of Sea area. Let the sea be poluted and save the land.