Our Biggest Landfill

I'm back!  Things are taking shape here in the old Papal Palace.  You wouldn't believe this place.  Had to move all my stuff into this office now that Cardinal Aceité took over the bedroom.  Given his health, who do you think had to move everything...Nostradamus lui-même!!!

Now that Cardinal Aceité got that new tv, blue-ray disc player, and one of them new iPads...we got a lot of extra trash to get out of here.  Speaking of trash, you know my prediction about Rings of Glutton?  Well I just learned something that even I couldn't have predicted...The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.  You got to read about it.  I outlined it below.  And in case you didn't hear about The Rings of Glutton, you must read Planet Satiety...our future depends on it.  You can get it straight from the Planet Satiety Website: http://www.planetsatiety.com/.

Now, about that garbage patch:
In t­he broad expanse of the northern Pacific Ocean, there exists the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a slowly moving, clockwise spiral of currents created by a high-pressure system of air currents. The area is an oceanic desert, filled with tiny phytoplankton but few big fish or mammals. Due to its lack of large fish and gentle breezes, fishermen and­ s­ailors rarely travel through the gyre. But the area is filled with something besides plankton: trash, millions of pounds of it, most of it plastic. It's the largest landfill in the world, and it floats in the middle of the ocean.


The gyre has actually given birth to two large masses of ever-accumulating trash, known as the Western and Eastern Pacific Garbage Patches, sometimes collectively called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Eastern Garbage Patch floats between Hawaii and California; scientists estimate its size as two times bigger than Texas [source: LA Times]. The Western Garbage Patch forms east of Japan and west of Hawaii. Each swirling mass of refuse is massive and collects trash from all over the world. The patches are connected by a thin 6,000-mile long current called the Subtropical Convergence Zone. Research flights showed that significant amounts of trash also accumulate in the Convergence Zone.

Silverman, Jacob. "Why is the world's biggest landfill in the Pacific Ocean?." 19 September 2007. HowStuffWorks.com. 22 April 2010.

Our Biggest Landfill