Garbage patch kids

Have you heard about the Pacific Ocean garbage patches?

I hadn’t until a few days ago and was shocked because I consider myself pretty “up” on environmental atrocities/news. No one likes preachy environmentalism, so in an effort to not sound like a total tree hugging psycho, I will restrain myself from writing all the horrors of plastic and let you look into it on your own if you feel so inclined. In a nutshell, there is a sludgey mess of decomposing plastic debris in the Pacific Ocean (accounts dispute over the size, which has been said to be anywhere between the size of Texas to twice the size of the continental U.S.) and it’s growing as plastics continue to be used and discarded.

If you haven’t seen pictures, read articles, or watched videos about this issue, do so. And get mad. Or sad, or whatever you get. Just promise us one thing: please don’t litter. I think you can handle it.

Here’s a link to an amazingly informative/scary/entertaining/sometimes hilarious series of videos about a crew who went out to research and report on “Garbage Island”: http://www.vbs.tv/watch/toxic/toxic-garbage-island-2-of-3

We throw stuff out that can’t biodegrade + it ends up in the ocean + fish eat it + we eat fish = we eat our own trash.

Ugh,

Hannah

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