The patch is now two times larger than the size of Texas, with bits of plastic and debris spread over more than 600,000 square miles of water, according to the three-year mapping effort from eight different organizations.

Meanwhile, the annual consumption of plastic is on the rise around the world and currently totals more than 320 million tons, according to the report.

"We have a role to think about how we are consuming and how we are living our daily lives," Mallos said. "At the end of the day, ocean plastic isn't an ocean problem, but a people problem. [The Great Pacific Garbage Patch] can seem so far away and foreign to you, but the ocean is always downstream. We all have the power to make individual, small changes."

Heaven forbid nonindividual, large changes are made.

Let's instead all recycle one plastic bottle a moth from now on. 😄

"At the end of the day, ocean plastic isn't an ocean problem, but a people problem. "

No, I think it's a big fuckin ocean problem.

Because there's this 600,000 floating plastic shitspace in it.

"Approximately half of the debris found in the patch is comprised of fishing gear, an alarming statistic for those who study marine life and ocean debris. Mallos describes the gear as "meant to kill," and when they are lost and discarded into oceans, they damage ecosystems and become deadly to marine life."

Me manly 😄

Me fish 😄

Me not only throw back fish after tearing holes in their jaws with metal, me then throw my gear in the water so even more fish/mammals suffer violently painful deaths before rotting at the bottom of the ocean 😄

Yeah that's why I eat seafood by scraping mussels off the pier.

It baffles me how leftists know more about ecology than conservatives do, yet aren't advocating global holocaust.

It's just "Hey, look at this? Isn't this kinda lame? Tee hee, guess we better recycle our dildos 😄"

Whereas conservatives just say "Global warming is a masonic conspiracy to reduce the faith of the masses in the power of the Lord 😄 "

Where are the people who believe in both global warming and the moral necessity of global holocaust?

Killing Pablo and ping pong means the cost of shiny lib toys skyrockets. They aren't stupid

Actually, Leftism does advocate global Holocaust.

Pablo and ping pong probably do less damage than the average snow white oregonian.

Bring back pentti linkola.

Advocates genociding domesticated cats due to their damage of native avian populations.

He's a real mensch.

Metal listeners are too busy trading cds at swap meets and flea markets to care about 600,000 mile garbage continent.

Half of them think India borders the Pacific Ocean.

True they do

Leftists do not understand a fundamental concept, which means that the Earth does not contain infinite space

SO whatever they DO understand is of little relevance

Do the be fruitful and multiply people understand it?

Yawheh's new sermon ought to be: "Do badly and don't meet population replacement values."

Come on @Gray Ghost

"Be fruitful and multiply" only applies to righteous people inhabiting a fertile realm devoid of rival humanoids: not applicable to this present dispensation.

You can do it.

Be fruitful and multiply applies to the chosen

Thanks for your encouragement.

how does that work when everyone thinks they are the chosen

People have to choose themselves. The first step is knowledge of self.

What

Probably less than 10 percent of the pop would have self knowledge like... ever

Feudalism is a good option for managing those who lack self awareness.

How

Stripping people of citizenship rights. Ending social programs. Deporting foreign stock inhabitants. Creating agricultural estates and giving people skill appropriate assignments.