yesterday in my o-chem lecture, my professor went off on a tangent about this floating, toxic accumulation of garbage in the middle of the pacific ocean that’s twice the size of texas.  then he talked about plastic and how it’s not biodegradable but rather photo-degradable, which means it breaks down and down but still exists as little tiny pieces of plastic that inevitably leech into the ocean water, making its way into fish and our water systems and inevitably everything we eat.  yumm!

garbage island: a documentary