It's like a toilet bowl that won't flush, the Pacific Ocean has a region the size of two Texas's and about 300 ft deep of swirling plastic trash. Awesome!

100 years of petro trash accumulation beginning to form aggregate patterns on a large scale, all of it unplanned to various extents.  This is of course in contrast to landfills, which are out of site. Those plastic bags hanging in trees like fruit?
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I usuall try to explain one is blue and one is brown. These pictures were taken with the same camera a few weeks apart.

northwest colors

connecticut colors
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