By now, everybody must have heard of the gigantic Pacific Garbage Patch—millions of square miles of crap, which consists mostly of tiny pieces of plastic debris, floating in a toxic oceanic vortex. And now, I find out that there’s another garbage patch forming in a gyre in the Atlantic Ocean as well. Apparently, there are 5 gyres in our ocean systems and soon we’ll be over-run with islands of debris that break down into nasty chemicals like bisphenal A, PCBs and derivatives of polystyrene, which are all making its way into our food supply. AAAAAAGGGHHHHH!!!
So I have been thinking of ways to solve this problem, otherwise I won’t be able to get my sushi fix without thinking I’m playing Russian roulette, and I have come to realize that the great creative minds of Hollywood have already come up with some solutions to our woes:
