Win $250,000 for trash. (in Contests)

I have a problem with my co-workers. I tried to set up an easy way to recycle at work, so it doesn't seem like people are going out of their way to have to recycle. For example, Putting a recycling bin right next to a trash can. And for most people its working. But there are a few people that when they put things in the trash, it magically disappears and has no effect on our world.

This is what I'm looking for.

I'm looking for 3 photographs of the Texas size trash island in the ocean. Now I've only heard this from other people, so i don't know for sure it exists. But if it does I will give $250,000 for the best photograph that you find. I will choose the 3 best ones and will have Novice help me decide. ( although he doesn't know yet)

Thank you for your help.

Here is a picture. Here is the article that goes with it.

...and another

Thank you Tezmac. Keep em coming.

*also I forgot to add, we will decide on the best ones on Sunday night PST*

I'll throw in another 250k for the prize... I think I'll borrow some time on a plotter and if someone can find a high res image.

really good article about the eastern garbage patch

even more

"If you could fast-forward 10,000 years and do an archaeological dig... you'd find a little line of plastic," [Ebbesmeyer] told The Seattle Times last April. "What happened to those people? Well, they ate their own plastic and disrupted their genetic structure and weren't able to reproduce. They didn't last very long because they killed themselves."

Oh dear. I highly encourage everyone to read these articles, if you haven't already. I'm completely stunned by this.

"The average American used 223 pounds of plastic in 2001. The plastics industry expects per-capita usage to increase to 326 pounds by the end of the decade."
Sick!

Found in this article:

LA Times

And an animation for how the trash vortex moves:

Thank you for your help.

Novice discovered by reading these articles that this plastic mess the size of Texas was mostly under the water, and that is why there are no aerial pictures of it online.

I also wanted to clear up that I would be giving 250,000 CBD for each photograph, and they did not have to be from the same person. But I would be choosing only 3.

These are the three best pictures I have found.
The last picture is a bird that have dies after eating garbage, it's terrible to see. I'm really more into recycling right now then I have been in my whole life.

Thanks guys, these are all good.

I can't seem to find any pictures of this particularly "trash island". But here are three more sea-thrash pictures. I once again end my serie with a picture of a animal that are hurt thanks to we throwing things away instead of recycling.

Concerning the non availability of pictures, check this link, some pictures of the small plastic bits that form the trash "heap" are on that link too http://theoystersgarter.com/2007/10/23/why-there-are-no-pictures-of-the-north-pacific-trash-gyre/

thank you for your help guys, These links and Pics will help me out and will be usefull. Novice will send another 250,000 to BluBBen. :)

Cuauhcihuatl (Carprofen) 70.134.113.191 BluBBen (Third BluBB) $250000 -- Thanks for the help. 12:33 PM EDT
Cuauhcihuatl (Carprofen) 70.134.113.191 Tezmac (Waste of Time) $500000 -- Thanks for the help. 12:30 PM EDT

Thanks for your help and link, Belg.

Cuauhcihuatl (Carprofen) 70.134.113.191 Belg (Belg) $25000 -- thanks 12:48 PM EDT

soon as I sell something I'll fire off the 250k... (had a late night brain fart and a crazed re-ink)

QBnovice (Rune of Suckage) 69.12.229.168 BluBBen (Third BluBB) $250000 8:26 PM EDT

Thanks guys! =) This was good for me as a person it was a little allarm clock ringing telling me to do my part to stop this problem more then I do.