*Texas is approximately 269 thousand square miles.
I’ve read about the North Pacific Gyre before but I got really attached working on a coming project for Greener Trends. Hearing about how bad it was, I had to see it. It’s pretty prohibitive to do so, but I was hoping that the great power of the Internet would come through. Most of my searching came up pretty much empty, maps and charts mostly.
Thankfully the good people of VBS.TV came though. They produced a 12-part video series documenting a trip they took to Garbage Island. What they found wasn’t the Texas-sized* island I’ve heard described. When it is explained, most of us imagine a floating pile of plastic heaped up upon itself. The truth is more deceptive, but more horrible when you examine it. And the truth is this: the water is the garbage. According to their expert guide explains that a “bad” ratio of plastic to organic artifacts is 6:1. In the patch, it’s 60:1.
I’m going to say this again. For every plant or animal there are sixty pieces of trash. That’s ten times worse than “bad.” Do we have a word for ten bads? Is it tragic? Is it horrifying? Is it stomach turning? Something like that.
The good stuff starts on part 9, but I suggest you watch the whole thing.
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Amazing. I’ll surf you blog. Will it be continued?