Is it normal there's a massive island of plastic in the ocean?

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Recycling is big here in California, hell, with all of the hobos around, you can throw all of your recyclables in the garbage anyway, they will do it all for you!

i think the reason why is it doesnt get that much attention is that

they barely show it and

its in the middle of nowhere for no one to see the real mess and

that its inevitable to stop it.

its sad but inevitable because of extreme consumerism and huge huge huge population and huge huge huge factories and industries.

http://www.cookiesound.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/garbage-in-ocean.jpg

This is what it looks like. In places it is thirty feet deep and some estimates say that the Pacific garbage patch covers an area twice the size of the United States (this is, admittedly, the high estimate. Some estimates put patches just a little larger than Texas). There are five of them, though, not just two.

The fact that humans can sleep at night with that abomination sitting in the oceans shows that we, in general, don't give a stuff about anything. If it weren't for the ocean currents keeping this stuff away from the coast, it would be piled up so deep against our beaches and harbours that there wouldn't be a single place on dry land where you could see the ocean (not even from a skyscraper).

This was the only picture I could find that was viewable within the constraints of the small size for photos on an IIN story.

I am sorry it did not meet your expectations. I did my best.