• Great Pacific Garbage Patch [Wikpedia]
• Why is the world's biggest landfill in the Pacific Ocean? [science.howstuffworks.com]
• The Plastiki Expedition [www.theplastiki.com]
• The voyage of the Plastiki [Observer 11 Oct 09]
• Recycled Island: plastic fantastic?
  [Observer 08 Aug 10]
• Why is bottled water waste a concern? [www.filterforgood.com]
• The Story of Bottled Water (2010, 8min) [storyofstuff.org]

Quick Facts on Trash Vortex

• Discovered in 1997 by Captain Charles Moore [Observer 8 Aug 10]
• 2008: 45 kilos of trash per kilo of plankton [Observer 8 Aug 10]
• The floating dump covers an area one and a half time the size of the USA [Observer 8 Aug 10]
• Plastic constitutes 90 percent of all trash floating in the world's oceans [L.A. Times 2 Aug 06]
• Every square kilometre of ocean hosts roughly 120,000 pieces of floating plastic [UN]
• The world produced 300 billion pounds of plastic each year, about 10% ends up in the ocean, 70% of which eventually sinks [GreenPeace]
• It has been estimated that over a million sea-birds and one hundred thousand marine mammals and sea turtles are killed each year by ingestion of plastics or entanglement. [Greenpeace]
• 80 percent of ocean trash originates on land [L.A. Times 2 Aug 06]
• The Eastern Garbage Patch floats between Hawaii and California (two times bigger than Texas)
• The Western Garbage Patch forms east of Japan and west of Hawaii
• Plastic does not biodegrade, no natural process can break it down