Green Living - Serious impact of Plastic Bags & bottles on enviro

http://www.hartofgreen.com/green-news/we-tear-through-plastic-bags-and-bottles-like-they%E2%80%99re-going-out-of-style-by-jerry-hart
Imagine a handful of plastic cornflakes sprinkled over a football field…. Now imagine 9 million football fields in the Pacific Ocean. 12 years ago, Captain Charles Moore accidentally “discovered” the plastic debris debacle in the North Pacific while sailing an infrequently traveled route from Hawaii to Los Angeles.  Stunned by the endless river of plastic junk he found – toothbrushes, bottle caps, wrappers, fragments