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Alan,
 
AI> You asked for a picture (there is more, if you care look it up) and I
AI> gave you a story to look at that included a picture.
 
AI> I'm sorry that garbage patch isn't what you were looking for!
 
I am aware of the "Chile Today" publication but the photo there has got
nothing to do with a mid-ocean plastic waste island which has now been reduced
to the well known patch or vortex. Look at the horizon of the photo, it's even
in-shore and in Japan after the 2011 Tsunami there. It's not even established
it's major plastic debris (not waste, that's different) or something else.
 
The reality is it cannot be photographed. You could be in your boat, sail
through it and not even notice it, catch fish for food.
 
It doesn't mean it isn't there, it means there is no trash island to
photograph, there even is no trash patch photos in existance. Not in "Nature",
not in "National Geographic", not in "NASA immagery".
 
Photos being used by "Ocean Cleanup", the non-profit started by Dutch college
drop-out Boyan Slat, were staged on deck of a Maersk vessel.
 
The plastic waste problem cannot be solved if it is not tackled at the source,
and the source is a stretch from the Indian peninsula comprising the coasts of
the whole of SE Asia where waste is simply dumped in rivers by garbage trucks.
North America is not the problem, South America is not the problem, Europe is
not the problem ... Mainland Asia is. And no issuing plastic bags at our
supermarkets is not going to solve a thing, it's not the source of the problem
... the source of the problem is elsewhere. When supermarkets issue no longer
plastic bags, it's not out of environmental concern, but to cut costs...while
at the same time they use thin-film packaging for foods which is considered
OK...
 
Take care,
 
 \%/@rd

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