Video: Charles Moore – Sailing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

(TedTalks) – Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he’s drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas.

MSM: The world’s rubbish dump – a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan

(Ind) – A “plastic soup” of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said.