Garbage Soup

Check out:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/05/6856/
It's about a garbage pile floating in the ocean that stretches 500 nautical miles off the Californian coast, across the northern Pacific, past Hawaii and almost as far as Japan. It's twice the size of the continental United States.
Some day the whole ocean is going to be this way. Plastic in my opinion shouldn't be made for commercial use. To much is being discarded to quickly and the end result is choking out nature. Green Peace is going to be very busy. Companies that preach that they're being good to the environment are lying as far as I'm concerned. Eliminating plastic bags are good enough but why are they charging people for environmentally friendly bags. Why can't they go back to the ol' paper bag that doesn't cost anything? Sounds to me like another profit maker. They save all the money for not producing plastic bags free to the public, and make extra for selling shopping bags. I make my own bags. It only takes a few minutes. I think people should sell hand made shopping bags. You'd be helping out the underground economy. We have enough products made by asian child slaves as it is.