Earth's Eighth Continent

Earth's Eighth Continent :: News :: thetyee.ca Read that article and you may flip out. How in the fuck do we let a garbage pile the size of Texas just accumulate in the Pacific? Se for all the good plastic does, there is a lot of bad too. For instance, plastics don't break down and degrade. It become small pellet sized plastic balls that look a lot like fish eggs and guess who eats fish eggs. Thats right fish, shrimp, birds, and just about any other animal in the ocean you can think of. Then guess who eats them? Thats right we do. You know what plastic can do? It has a knack for holding onto toxic chemicals. Lots of toxins. So when those fish eat the eggs that are really plastic and we eat those toxin laden fish we are filling our own selves with toxins. Isn't it fun being human?