The Plastic Continent

by K. N. Singer

Sometimes called the "Plastic Continent" and sometimes called the "Pacific Garbage Patch", it amounts to the same thing – an island of floating garbage, most of which is plastic, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. But there's a reason that some environmentalists are referring to it as a "Continent" -- this island is twice the size of Texas. How big does that make the garbage patch? More than half a million square miles.

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