The Pacific - Not The Only Ocean Collecting Plastic Trash

The Christian Science Monitor's Kristen Chick reports "... while the Pacific Ocean has garnered much attention for what some call the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” – a vast expanse of floating plastic deposited in the middle of the ocean by circulating currents – the problem doesn’t stop there. New research shows that plastic has collected in a region of the Atlantic as well, held hostage by converging currents, called gyres, to form a swirling “plastic soup... experts speculate, the real reason that so much plastic ends up at sea is because so much of it is designed to be used once, then tossed.” Read the full article.