Floating Landfill

Friday I got an e-mail from my brother with this bizarre story from the

"The so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a stewy body of plastic and marine debris that floats an estimated 1,000 miles west of California, is a shape-shifting mass far too large, delicate and remote ever to be cleaned up, according to a researcher who recently returned from the area."

Blue Octagon shows approximate location.

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Update September 2016 replaced missing picture.