Something New Learned

You should learn something new everyday then I guess you can go back to bed.
After this one though please don't go back to bed. Go out and learn more.

There is an area of the Pacific Ocean that is estimated to be twice the size of Texas called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It is a gyre of marine debris or more accurately a floating patch of trash, mostly plastics. And most frighteningly it is growing. All plastic ever created still exists in our environment in one form or another. It never goes away, ever. Some you can still recognize as the baby doll from your childhood or the milk jug from breakfast. Others have broken down to microscopic size bits ingested by plankton then fish and other marine life and then in many cases you!

Learn more...
1) Research these terms Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Eastern Garbage Patch and North Pacific Gyre

2) Watch this video The Garbage Patch