Continent-sized floating garbage patch threatens food chain

smh.com.au — In one of the few places on Earth where people can rarely be found, the human race has well and truly made its mark. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean lies a floating garbage patch twice the size of Britain. A place where the water is filled with six times as much plastic as plankton, a plastic-plankton soup that is entering the food chain. Dec 30, 2007 View in Crawl 4