If you're fortunate enough to subscribe to Rolling Stone, or tend to pick it up on the rack, you no doubt noticed in the recent issue the amazing story of Captain Charles Moore, scientist and founder of the Algalita Research Institute and the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch."  Moore's story and the story of the garbage patch has been one we've covered before, but the below image that appeared in the Rolling Stone story (we wish we could link to the story, but RS makes you pay for online reading), is an image that really drives home the message of needing to do something to clean this Texas-sized problem. 

 

 

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