Via Boing Boing, the San Francisco Chronicle reports that there’s a floating heap of plastic and trash off the coast of California that’s grown to twice the size of Texas (but not as stupid):
The enormous stew of trash - which consists of 80 percent plastics and weighs some 3.5 million tons, say oceanographers - floats where few people ever travel, in a no-man’s land between San Francisco and Hawaii.
Even worse, scientists are gloomy about the prospect of ever cleaning up the mess:
“At this point, cleaning it up isn’t an option,” Parry said. “It’s just going to get bigger as our reliance on plastics continues. … The long-term solution is to stop producing as much plastic products at home and change our consumption habits.”
