Mission to deal with the continent of plastic garbage in the Pacific

Mission to break up Pacific island of rubbish twice the size of Texas - Times Online

A high-seas mission departs from San Francisco next month to map and explore a sinister and shifting 21st-century continent: one twice the size of Texas and created from six million tonnes of discarded plastic.

Scientists and conservationists on the expedition will begin attempts to retrieve and recycle a monument to throwaway living in the middle of the North Pacific. ...