The Garbage Patch

It turns out that there's a floating island of garbage in the Pacific the size of Texas. The Great Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch is in a subtropical gyre which means that it gets very little wind and there's very little current so it's like a black hole in the ocean. Stuff can come in but it can't leave. Well, that's not completely true, it turns out that there's a "leak" and that leak sends the trash to a certain beach in Hawaii where the trash stands 10 feet high.

Wow, we're so nice to this planet.