Giant Island of Trash

Hey , what if some one can gather it more tight, throw some other stuff in it and make it an island?
Weird innagibation, eh :)

I've gone looking for pictures of this mysterious floating trash pile a few times. Why is this the only picture that exists anywhere? Where are the aerial photos? Is this one of those "guestamated" this is a big as texas things?

Per wikipedia (I know that isn't reliable) there is no verification of the size of this thing. It may just be a weird sort of urbo-academic myth.

Why don't we take some the plastic and recycle it. You know make it a cleaner ocean for fish and humans. Why would you want to make it an island anyway. The more trash that is present then the more likely it is to kill the fish that live in our oceans.

I found more info on this topic at this latimes website. It is very informative

www.latimes.com/news/local/oceans/la-me-ocean2aug02,0,3130914.story

Why is taking the responsibility for something humans did always result in um “that would take too much money to fix”. Soon we won’t have a planet to live on and then you can say Um “we are ignorant animals how take for granted are existence!”

This "island" is not the first hudge trash mound on the planet there are lots of them, this just happends to be the result of the Gyre In the pacific bringing many tides together which then brings much detritus to the center where this trash is, it has been collecting since shipping from asia started basically. there are two main events that occure that greatly contributed to the pile in 1990 80,000 nike shoes were spilled while transporting them from china to the west coast, then there was the plastic bag incident when a barge spilled containing plastic bags for toco bell spilled into the ocean. The shipping company plus the reciever of stock should be respocible for cleaning up these acceidents, but unfortunatley there is no policy to enforece this it is up to us to sign potitions to get the legislator to enforce a law concerning this matter. Also being informed is important. Most americans are what is called Limosine liberals, which implies that we all are aware of the issues and want them to stop but we actually don't do anything to stop it, like for instance not using plastic bags. or not buying things contained in plastic like prepackaged foods ect. Its up to you to do these things in every day life. AMericans are one of the only contries that supports bottled water, Italy for example had most bottled water companies banned from thier consumer market and most of the bottled water is made in glass, now this wasn't a matter of the plastic but much more a matter of the water itself and the policies associated with it. but bottled beverages is a hudge issue in our society. We are the leading contributors to pollution in the world with developing countries close behind.

we should just nuke the island

NUKE IT!!!!!

An old friend in the grocery store told me about this yesterday... I'm going to try and find her aerial shots via google earth etc. has anyone got accurate coordinates on this?.. as stated above why are there no aerial shots?

i found the exact coordinates on google earth they are 33 degrees 22' 49.73"N
and 125 degrees 01' 30.66"W

Seems to me that the billions our dear president has spent on Iraq; would have been put to much better use by taking care of this island of trash or another such issue.