Sailing the Plastic Pacific

Short note: Scripps IO has a new article about the expedition that studied the floating plastic in the North Pacific Gyre:

Inside the Plastic Vortex

Quote: "Yes, they found lots and lots of plastic and debris in the gyre, but no, the "patch" isn't an island of trash, as is commonly believed. You can't walk across it. There is indeed a vast amount of large pieces of debris, but by far the overwhelming majority is broken down bits of plastic the size of a thumbnail and smaller. You can't see a defined patch or a swirl of debris from the air or space. The plastic is dispersed across thousands of miles of ocean."

Pitchers and glasses, anyone? (When I was growing up my parents had METAL lemonade glasses. For some reason the lemonade just tasted great when the metal glasses were ice cold. I don't know why.)