Plastic soup the size of the US found in the Pacific

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Originally Posted by rg570lvr

WTF, is that for real?

Unfortunately, yes. It was first reported a little over a year ago. The plastics are said to come from all over the Pacific but that California is thought to be the largest contributor.

For what it is worth my wife and I just returned from our local and organic food coop where they offer lots of "bulk" liquids as well as solids. Reusing our containers and bags we brought the following bulk items home:

Shampoo
Conditioner
Lotion
Dish soap
Laundry soap
Olive oil
Eggs
Maple syrup
Pancake mix
Lentil beans
Leeks
Spinach
Mushrooms
Spaghetti pasta
Farafelle pasta
Earl Grey tea
Chai tea

All of that and the few packaged items we bought were brought home in our reusable cloth bags. Once cosumed any reusable packaging will indeed be reused and all other packaging will be recycled locally.

These are small steps that anyone can take to greatly reduce the amount of plastics and other waste in general that they introduce into the stream. Avoiding bottled water and soda is another. The less you waste the less chance there is for the remaining waste to end up somewhere horrible like the middle of the Pacific, or the local landfill.