The swirling mass of plastic toothbrushes, toys, condoms and God-known-what-else-and-just-maybe-I-don't want-to-think-about-it-too-much is located in the Pacific ocean, close to the Northwestern Haawaiian islands. Marine animals are getting tangled in it (not good for obvious reasons of being unable to complete basic physiological functions), eating it (not good since its nutritional value is exactly zero and it's often jammed with toxic chemicals), and riding it around the ocean currents (sounds like fun; however not good since this is how invasive species problems get started).
The swirling vortex is apparently rather dynamic but sometime it gets to be as big as Texas.
I've taken a bus across part of texas. It's a d**n big state.
And this plastic stuff - it should be classified as a state too. A environmental state of emergency.
garbage bag picture by material boy copied under the Share Alike lisence
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