When I work on cruise ships, we have very strict rules about not throwing anything in the sea - there are certain international maritime laws against disposal of any garbage directly in the waves, we have machines that burn and crash everything possible and than later its brought back to the ports. However, these laws permit disposal of garbage directly in the sea if its far away from the coast - this is why I was shocked and surprised to read about something called "Garbage Islands" and it floating in the Pacific Ocean. Its difficult to exactly tell the size of it because it can't be seen from the satellite (plastic floats on the top of the water) but scientists and seamen claim its huge and perhaps even bigger than India, its almost like another continent, a GARBAGE CONTINENT.
As far as 1988. researchers noticed high level of plastic in the sea around Japan and predicted there might be even more of these in isolated Pacific waters far away, where ocean currents bring them. All this plastic garbage can't sink and floats around in huge quantities, poisoning natural life and the waters with long-lasting plastics impossible to detect by aircraft or satellite. This not only poisons the waters but ends up being eaten by fish, later by humans again. There are some expeditions that try to clean this up, but its a huge and never ending job - most of the people simply don't care for this and refuse to think about our planet as a living organism that we poison. Its really horrible to see what we are doing to our world.
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