TOXIC: Garbage Island

This is a pretty interesting documentary about the “continent sized garbage island” they say is floating in the Pacific Ocean.

[spoiler] What the filmmakers find out is that it is not really a garbage island. Rather than being a big mass of visible garbage, it is plastics that have broken down into their simplest form and mixed in with the water. This is actually much worse, because it is impossible to clean up and is easier for animals to ingest. They take water samples and show how the plastic has a confetti like constancy in the water. It is pretty sickening.