Plastic Junk in the Ocean is getting Worse - not better.

http://www.alternet.org/environment/plastic-junk-litters-our-oceans-killing-sea-life-and-its-getting-worse?akid=12367.294211.4owv6-&rd=1&src=newsletter1023344&t=16

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a collection of debris in the North Pacific ocean – is one of five major garbage patches drifting in the oceans.
Captain Charles J. Moore recently returned from a six-week research trip to the patch and was “utterly shocked” by how the quantity of plastic debris – everything from hard hats to fishing nets to tires to tooth brushes — had grown since his last trip there in 2009.
“It has gotten so thick with trash that where we could formerly tow our trawl net for hours, now our collection tows have to be limited to one hour,” Moore, founder of Algalita Marine Research and Education, told BillMoyers.com