Sea of Trash - Pollution in the World's Oceans - NYTimes.com
The New York Times reports: "In 2002, Nature magazine reported that during the 1990s, debris in the waters near Britain doubled; in the Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica the increase was a hundredfold. And depending on where they sample, oceanographers have found that between 60 and 95 percent of today’s marine debris is made of plastic."

Comment: If we can agree that it is not a good idea to continue to throw plastic into the oceans perhaps we can do something about it. Either we try to do something or become reconciled to the slow death of the oceans. Is there some point, some critical mass, at which the amount of plastic in the oceans disrupts the food chain?