Could we clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
About a thousand miles off the coast of California floats one of mankind’s dirtiest little secrets. Or at least it was a secret before the late ’90s, when a seafaring scientist stumbled upon it in horror. It’s a floating dump in the ocean, big enough to hold one or two Texases or maybe all of North America, depending on who you ask [sources: Stone, Silverman, SSF]. The discrepancy in size estimates may be due to the fact that since most of the trash is below the surface, the borders are almost impossible to see from above the water. Plus, the trash moves around with the currents, and there’s more than one of these
