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Friday, July 16, 2010

Let's Recycle The Swirling Vortex Of Plastic Garbage Into An Island Utopia

The North Pacific Gyre is a giant mass of plastic detritus churning around in the Pacific that isn't going anywhere soon, and its killing off fish and birds. The birds eat it and it fills up their stomach so that they don't have any hunger, and then they die of starvation with their stomachs full of plastic. Now one group has an admittedly far-fetched notion to recycle the plastic on the spot via floating factory ships and use the material to build a floating island utopia.

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