Twice the size of Texas, just circling around in the Pacific Ocean and getting bigger every day...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/10/19/SS6JS8RH0.DTL&type=politics

http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Moore-Trashed-PacificNov03.htm


Just this once, I wish pictures could be embedded in threads...

Giant Sea Turtle horribly deformed by a band of plastic around its middle