There is a patch of thousands of square miles of bits of floating plastic, chemical sludge and other trash in our Pacific Ocean, floating with the currents of the North Pacific Gyre in a clockwise cycle, rotating between California/Mexico, Indonesia and Japan. A similar patch of trash is found in the Atlantic Ocean.
The idea that there is this place called ‘away’ for us to throw our things is evidently not true. There is no such thing as throwing ‘away’, because ‘away’ is ’somewhere’; it is some place. We might not be conscious of where these places are, but they do exist and they are home to a diverse network of aquatic life.
For a video, see http://www.thegp2project.org/
