one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog

A visit to the Pacific’s toxic garbage island, where our plastic goes to die/kill. It’s a 12 part video so I’m not embedding it, just start with the link and you’ll see the rest.

People, like animals, do not generally foul their own nests. But they feel free to throw rubbish around for much the same reason morons feel entitled to vandalise bus shelters, smash park benches or use telephone boxes as urinals: they do not feel the public realm is theirs.

We have identical litter problems