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Floating Garbage - If You Don’t Think Junk Is a Problem…

January 4, 2008 – 4:35 pm | by jaygaulardcom

I have been running into this quite a bit lately. I linked to the first story I saw about it in Digg. I guess a lot of other people are kind of disturbed about the whole thing too. In my 34 years on this planet, I have learned that there are a bunch of people out there who do a very good job of hiding things from the average Joe. The problem with this is that poor old average Joe has no idea he is doing anything wrong. What Joe needs to learn is that every single time he goes to the store, whatever he buys ends up in the dirt or in the ocean…and that’s that. We are all quite guilty.

I did a Google search for Floating Garbage and this is what I found. It is simply disgusting. Going through life, I hear about all the terrible things we are doing to this planet, but this just tops the cake. I can’t believe that all the other animals that we live with have to put up with this. Take a look:

- Trashed - Across the Pacific Ocean, Plastics, Plastics, Everywhere
- Oceans of Garbage
- Are There Really ‘Continents’ of Floating Garbage?
- The plastic killing fields
- Floating toxic plastic garbage island twice the size of Texas

Wow. I am not sure that anyone can even point fingers here. It’s the cover-up that gets to me. I think I have enough faith in humanity to assume that if the majority of us knew about this, we would’ve done something about it by now.