Garbage Moguls: God Bless the Eco-Capitalists
Include USA Garbage Moguls
The BP oil spill has nothing on the hundreds of miles of garbage floating in the Atlantic Ocean and its bigger sibling, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch , a plastic-soup in the Pacific Ocean estimated to span the size of the continental U.S. Our oceans are our landfills, a fact that nags at me with every take-out container and other piece of trash I dispose of in my kitchen. I'm just one person making all this trash, and my internal-dialogue now sounds like the hitchhiker woman in Five Easy Pieces: "Pretty soon there won't be room for anyone!"