- What?
- 130,000 inflatable breasts were lost at sea.
- That's hilarious.
- They disappeared off a container ship.
- What on earth were they for?
- Inserts. For a men's magazine.
- You know what that means.
- What.
- Kids will soon be able to use them as beach balls.
- If they can find them among the bottles, sneakers, rubber duckies, hockey gloves, LEGO pieces and other plastics that wash up every year.
- Yeah. Well. . .
- Of course, they could also end up in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
- You mean that large area in the Pacific with hundreds of millions of tons of floating plastic?
- Yup. You know. The one that's about the size of Alaska.
- I've always wondered how that area formed.
- Ocean currents. The North Pacific Gyre.
- This is all very depressing.
- Yeah. Not funny at all.
For further reading, I recommend Loree Griffin Burns' Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion for a great introduction to the subject.
