LAist: Our Future in Plastics

polaroidgirl

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:37:42 -0800

I also recently had no luck finding photos of the garbage island. Howstuffworks.com has a good entry about it but no pix that match the scariest descriptions.

spoon

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:31:28 -0800

There may not be an island, but I do remeber that barge of trash from NYC back in the 80's that had no where to go. We just need to stop making disposable EVERYTHING. Why is everything we buy now plastic and designed to break after a few years anyhow?

shant

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:08:51 -0800

Sine LAist is now Digg, I'll bring up some of the comments from when this was on Digg. If there really was an island of trash that large you'd be able to see it on Google Earth. The area of the gyre is twice the size of Texas and lots of plastic waste ends up there, but it's not like you can take a boat there and get off and walk across 500 miles of plastic island.

Christine

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:27:24 -0800

I tried hard and long to find a picture of this trash island as well, but I could not. It is a little fishy, but if I've been duped then so have most of the major news outlets...if this turns out to be urban legend perpetuated by tree huggers, then i'm glad anyway that there's not a trash island in the middle of the Pacific.

Rainlillie

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:22:21 -0800

I've heard about this for a while. Can never find a picture of it. Google it for yourself, you'll find pictures of trash on beaches, trash in the los angeles river, but NO island of trash twice the size of Texas. Maybe one the believers can find a photo or something to prove this isn't an urban legend. Even the video linked to doesn't show any island of trash. I'm not saying there isn't any trash floating around or that we aren't doing damage to the planet, just not this twice the size of texas island of trash.