Researchers studying the Pacific have found large amounts of plastic. There is even a patch estimated to be twice the size of Texas known as ‘the garbage patch” found in 1997. Life in the sea is ingesting this plastic and may have health effects on people eating sea food.
The garbage patch does not stand alone. There are milions of locations on earth that have large collections of trash. Often we like to believe we live in technologically advanced societies, however, there is little done to find ways to eliminate trash and use environmentally friendly products. Instead our society resorts to an almost barbaric way of disposing of trash….throw in it a bag and haul it away to a far away dump, throw it out the window, or throw in in the sea… and only rarely taking the extra step to recycle.
