Floating Garbage

Remember the plastic bag that, while looking for its maker, encounters the Pacific Vortex?  Check out this recent tidbit brought to us by Mark Morford:

"Not to be outdone by the wily Pacific, the Atlantic Ocean is now reporting the existence of its very own giant, rancid, thousand-mile-wide swath of plastic collected over a period of years in a huge, swirling vortex and choking off sea life as far as the eye can weep. The Atlantic Plastic Explosion™ (as it would like to be known) is drifting somewhere between Bermuda and Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores. Yay world!"

According to Charles Moore, an ocean researcher credited with discovering the Pacific garbage patch in 1997, "humanity's plastic footprint is probably more dangerous than its carbon footprint."
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So next time we are about to throw something away, we might ask ourselves: where exactly is "away"?
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