Debris Turns Hawaiian Beach To Plastic.

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Originally Posted by zongtseng

This is ridiculous, and not a surprise. This is the kind of environmental thing everyone should be able to get behind doing something about. Global warming is debatable, coating the planet in plastic and garbage being a bad thing is not debatable. We suck.

Exactly. People can argue that climate change is a natural phenomenon, but no one in their right mind can claim that the Earth naturally grew it's own garbage.

Originally Posted by PunkMaister

Hasn't anybody being able to track down where all that crap is coming from because that amount is just highly irregular and points that somewhere they are dumping that plastic and is being carried by the currents all the way to Hawaii.

It's probably coming from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch located in the North Pacific gyre, like the article says. It's anywhere from the a few hundred to a few thousand miles wide.