Garbage Continent

The huge mass of garbage in the middle of the Pacific ocean is really sad to me. I find it disgusting that we are the main cause of this pollution. The trash is mistaken for phytoplankton, and as most of you know, plankton is at the bottom of the food chain. This means that this trash is infecting tons of animals, and is effecting more than just the animals that eat it mistaking it for food. The garbage is killing hundreds of thousands of birds and other animals every year, and although we may not be witnessing many threatening short-term effects, the long-term effects are probably going to be a lot worse, and we should try our hardest to prevent it from getting worse, while we can. It's not that hard to go and recycle your trash, and you would be surprised at how much it would help if more people were doing it.