‘Toxic Garbage Island’ shows how trash is devastating our oceans (video)

VentureBeat writes, Ever wonder where all those plastic bags and bottles you throw away end up? It’s not pretty. Toxic Garbage Island, an hour-long documentary that has just been posted online, shows how the increasing use of the ocean as a garbage dump is slowly destroying ecosystems. The cast of the documentary originally set out to find an island made of garbage and plastic in the Northern Gyre of the Pacific Ocean. While trying to find this island, they analyzed small and large chunks of trash that cannot biodegrade. It’s a deeply affecting look at what’s happening to our oceans and a...

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