It takes up to four weeks for a single sheet of paper to dissolve when thrown into the ocean. It takes a plastic bottle 450 years. Today the evidence of our human presence can be found in the gyres of the oceans, those rotating current zones that lie midway between the continents. The

In a recent study of the North Atlantic Ocean oceanographers took water samples to depths of 33 meters (+100 feet). The results surprised the scientists. Plastic garbage was evident not only in surface sampling but at all depths. We humans are creating an environmental nightmare in ou