Drowning in plastic: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of France
There are now 46,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometre of the world's oceans, killing a million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals each year. Worse still, there seems to be nothing we can do to clean it up. So how do we turn the tide? Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
This article opened my eyes to plastic use. I was aware that plastic is a huge problem because it never goes away, but I did not know the pacific ocean was drowning in it. I thank this article for opening my eyes. When I read that that there is a garbage patch that is twice the size of France, I was devastated. I feel very disturbed and concerned about the sea birds and mammals that die each year because of this.