What are you talking about? Plastic is still really bad. About the only significant message the above article contains is that it's not actually a garbage floe but diffuse bits and pieces that make their way into the food chain and kill animals. The thing about it not actually having been verified that a stomach…

And, on the return trip, the spacecraft can solve that pesky climate change issue.

Just be sure to cut your plastic rings before launch or they might find themselves around the neck of a helpless astronaut...

Yeah dude, if anything the Deep Water Horizon incident was UNDERhyped...there are serious problems with deformation, skin lesions, tumors etc. showing up in large percentages of the ocean wildlife in the Gulf. And its not just the oil in the water thats an issue, all the caustic chemicals they use to clean spills are…

Most, if not all, of the oil from the BP spill has evaporated, eating by organisms, etc., but that plastic?? It's going to be around for a LOOONG time.....

Um. Plastic *is* an organic substance - much of it is made from oil, and a bunch of plastic that's not made from oil is made from corn starch. Most plastic doesn't biodegrade easily, but that doesn't make it non-organic. Plus, as an added bonus: birth defects in the wildlife in the region affected by the spill are…