Remember my last tip about reducing our use of plastic shopping bags? Well, here’s another reason why we should be trying to curb our usage of them. How about “a heap of debris floating in the Pacific that’s twice the size of Texas”?! This is really bad news, folks. Besides simply polluting our waters, it’s killing off the marine and ovarian life who mistake this trash for food.

The following quotes are from an article about this in the 10/19/2007 edition of the San Francisco Gate:

“The enormous stew of trash – which consists of 80 percent plastics and weighs some 3.5 million tons, say oceanographers – floats where few people ever travel, in a no-man’s land between San Francisco and Hawaii. “
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“At this point, cleaning it up isn’t an option,” Parry said. “It’s just going to get bigger as our reliance on plastics continues. … The long-term solution is to stop producing as much plastic products at home and change our consumption habits.”

Read the full article here:
Continent-size toxic stew of plastic trash fouling swath of Pacific Ocean

Refuse and Reuse!