About Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Check out 'The Story of Bottled Water' here;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se12y9hSOM0
A "plastic soup" of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is not detectable in satellite photographs because the sea of rubbish is translucent and lies just below the water's surface. You only see it from the bows of ships,and it is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said.
The vast expanse of debris – in effect the world's largest rubbish dump – is held in place by swirling underwater currents.This drifting "soup" stretches from about 500 nautical miles off the Californian coast, across the northern Pacific, past Hawaii and almost as far as Japan.
There have been warnings issued that unless consumers cut back on their use of disposable plastics, the plastic stew will double in size over the next decade.
Plastic is believed to constitute 90 per cent of all rubbish floating in the oceans. The UN Environment Programme estimated in 2006 that every square mile of ocean contains 46,000 pieces of floating plastic. We wonder what that figure is today?