The Biggest Dump In The World?

[Coast]

The world’s biggest rubbish dump keeps growing. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch – or the Pacific Trash Vortex – is a floating monument to our culture of waste, the final resting place of every forgotten carrier bag, every discarded bottle and every piece of packaging blown away in the wind. Opinions about the exact size of this great, soupy mix vary, but some claim it has doubled over the past decade, making it now six times the size of the UK.

This global problem is the motive behind the Plastiki, a 60ft, 12-ton catamaran built from 12,500 recycled plastic bottles, which embarks on its maiden voyage from San Francisco this week. The brainchild of David de Rothschild, the flamboyant British banking heir and environmentalist, the Plastiki will sail right through the middle of the Garbage Patch as part of a campaign to help make more people aware of the Pacific’s threatened communities and of the damage our waste is doing to our oceans.

www.theplastiki.com

www.telegraph.co.uk

wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch

[Pennine Ten Foot Drifts]

Yet another example to add to the vast ever increasing list that confirms humans are no better than a huge and growing parasite on the face of the earth.

[Essan]

But surely humans are too small and insignifcant when compared with the size of the Earth and the oceans to have any effect? :unsure: