Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Today on John Ulett and J.C.’s morning show, they were talking about plastic bottles and how we aren’t supposed to put them in the dishwasher and re-use them because of the harmful chemicals which would be unleashed—and we would consequently consume.
A woman called in and said that there is an island, twice the size of the U.S., in between California and Japan. She said that this island is made of plastic trash. Of course, this sounded crazy to the radio veteran’s (and to me as well).
Well, they looked into it during the show and came up with something called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (aka Gilligan’s Island), and it is apparently wreaking havoc on the ocean’s eco-system. Others claim it’s only the size of Texas, but that’s big enough.
Of course what goes around comes around, and since Hawaii is in the middle, they have had trash wash up on their beaches there, according to an Australian news site.
The site states that the boundaries stretch “from about 500 nautical miles off the coast of California across the northern Pacific to near the coast of Japan.” The patch was discovered in 1997 by American sailor, Charles Moore.
Instead of being able to walk on it, experts say it’s more like a plastic soup.
Um, I’m not hungry.
