How To Rid The Sea Of An Ocean Of Plastic

It is estimated that between seven and ten million tons of floating plastic garbage are polluting and choking an area the size of Texas in the central Pacific Ocean. This is one of several such areas around the world, known as gyres, where ocean currents naturally concentrate the trash. The enormity of the plastic is a seemingly insurmountable problem because it cannot be removed and taken to land for disposal. It cannot be incinerated due to the toxicity of the smoke. It cannot be ignored because the plastic is being eaten by fish, birds and mammals. Others become trapped and killed by it. The plastic will destroy the food chain. There are six times as much floating plastic as there are plankton and the plankton-eaters are consuming more and more plastic. A Styrofoam cup breaks down into little white pellets that have the appearance of fish eggs, which are swallowed by other hungry animals.

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Source: Rense.com