Luckily I got to hear about this depressing news piece three times between Friday and Sunday, when my mom was in Portland for a visit. The news, and Brenda, report there is a mass of trash in the Pacific twice the size of the state of Texas. More specifically, the "Pacific Garbage Patch" is made of 80% plastic from those bags, etc. that migrate down your sewer drain and mine, or fall off ships. The Patch weighs about 3.5 million tons. Mom also reports that it is as deep as a mile in some areas, making it impossible for marine life to pass, as they get entangled in the trash.
Biologists are monitoring the trash island, but thanks to the gospel, this continues to be nothing short of depressing, all of three times I heard the story. Moral of the gospel: Take your own bag to the store.
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