[Canmore, AB 03-05-09] Back on May 19, 2008 I posted an entry “Beware of the Gyres.” Gyres are really scary huge patches out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. All of our plastic that is thrown away and caught up in our rivers (on the western side of the Great Divide in North America as well as Eastern Asia) make it out to the ocean and eventually settle to float in these gyres endlessly. It is literally a soup of small bits of plastic from bags as well as caps from water bottles, lighters, etc. Really awful… take a look at this 7 min video to understand the impact of our “throw away” society: “…only we humans make waste that nature cannot digest.”