“It’s a shame I learned about this from my teacher and not on the news. It’s like the media in America is avoiding the subject or something. Like we have more to worry about than out beautiful ocean and marine life. It’ll be a terrible day when the oceans are deemed toxic, and desalinization will be useless. I say once we get this stuff out of the water we should throw it into space on a course to Venus or some planet that will surely dispose of the plastic for us properly.. I’m just a little afraid of aliens coming to our planet and dumping their trash all over us as a result..”