jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

This is awful. A huge floating island of trash now exists in the beautiful Caribbean.

http://mashable.com/2017/11/14/trash-island-caribbean/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=webfeeds#iX9OAd67Ygqg

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

All in one place, makes me think it was dumped from a ship of some kind (we humans are disgusting)

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

The link is not working for me, too bad.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Probably not. Garbage seems to be attracted to itself. It's like particles in space joining to make planets. The Atlantic and Pacific also have these trash islands.

Doddy Loc: Barnard Castle-England

So So sad to see this..When are going we to wake up to the dangers of all this pollution?

fergmark Loc: norwalk connecticut

this isn't new. At least the one in the pacific has been talked about for quite some time. This is the first I have heard of the same thing in the Caribbean. I have not heard of any effort to do anything about it. That is more stunning to me, than that it is there. I see people throw their trash out their car windows all the time. We have plenty of words for when you have no feelings for how you adversely affect other peoples lives. Not too many for how people adversely affect our planet. All swept under the rug of progress an profit. A blind eye to anything that doesn't personally affect us. People need to wake up. Its not just a trash issue. Its just as much about how people treat people. It looks pretty bleak to me.

foathog Loc: Greensboro, NC

Don't worry we now have a new crackerjack head of the EPA.

ad9mac

Yeah, in the Caribbean Division . /s