We've been reading in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin about the Junk Raft. Not sure if any of you know what it is but here goes....it's a raft made of plastic flotsam that I believe has all been collected from garbage floating in the Pacific Ocean. The group behind the Junk Raft is trying to bring attention to an area of plastic debris in the ocean called the North Pacific Gyre. 
"Marcus Eriksen, one of the two men in that team, wrote on the boat's blog ( https://junkraft.blogspot.com/ ) : "The North Pacific Gyre is a clockwise rotating mass of water roughly twice the size of the U.S. where currents and winds slow down."" Like a toliet bowl that never flushes!! The vessel is made of 15,000 plastic bottes held together by discarded fishing nets, while its hull is the fuselage of a Cessna plane. On June 1 the boat left Long Beach, CA, for the roughly 2,400 mile trip to Hawai'i. Anna Cummins, who is working from land with the Junk crew members said the debris is not easily visible fromt he surface of the ocean, but using a net to skim the surface will pull up plastic confettilike debris, so much that it is competing with plankton as a food source.
"The trash is coming from the United States, Asia & Europe and extends from 500 miles off the coast of California across the Pacific to Japan."
"The plastics make their way into sea turtles, birds, fish & whales. Recently after a voyage into the gyre, scientists found dozens of pieces of plastic in a lantern fish a couple inches long."
"We'd like to see greater personal responsibility for limited one-time use of plastics and more responsible policy for limitiing single-use disposables," Cummins Said.
(taken from the Honolulu Star-Bulletin- August 18, 2008)
If we all took the time to recycle and help the earth it would become a better place. Install it into your children early, talk to your grandkids about makign sure they recycle and throw things into the trash. Find alternatives to dumping everything into your trash can. If you have old things that you don't want but are still in fair condition...sell it, give it to Goodwill or Salvation Army or a Woman's shelter ...Reduce, reuse & Recycle!!!