Reporter Charlie Gillis on how Oprah.com and others overstated the notorious Great Pacific Garbage Patch
April 02, 2008 Long Beach, California Charles Moore holds a tray of debris collected on a beach in Hawaii washed ashore from the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” , a floating garbage dump about the size of Australia created by Pacific currents.
Read Charlie’s article “Trashing the island” from the January 31 issue of Maclean’s