Gilligan's Island The Size Of Texas
A little-known island continent of floating toxic plastic garbage the size of Texas, is growing in the pacific between Califormnia and Hawaii. Officially known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, until it can be taxed, U.S. officials will continue to ignore it. I heard of it once many years ago, but it apparently has been growing tenfold each decade since the 1950s, and now consists of 80% plastic. It has also been called Gilligan's Island, from the trashy TV sitcom that won't go away.Via Truemors.com, photo by Keoki Stender.
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"...U.S. officials will continue to ignore it."
Why assume that it's the job of the United States to singlehandedly take on an immense job that is, at its closest, a few hundred miles away from U.S. territorial waters? Such a monumental effort would be better tackled as an international undertaking, since the entire Pacific Rim contributes to this particular mess.
A garbage island twice the size of Texas would be easily visible from space. Why then are there no pictures of it?
@anon: interesting point, it should be around here: http://maps.google.com/?ll=30.410....
A quick style nitpick: should be "1950s". Dates should not contain apostrophes unless used in a sentence that denotes ownership, e.g. "1986's Bon Jovi release Slippery When Wet".
more can be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch
Twice the size was an exaggeration, and it has been corrected. Also, it'll slow down in growth, but keep getting deeper.
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