Plastic Bags, the True Evil? Or is it that water bottle you're holding?

I read with interest Danny Westneat's column in the Seattle Times yesterday. It's about a garbologist (flotsam guy) and oceanographer, talking about the impact of pastic bags and Mayor Nickels effort to tax them out of existance.

It's not the pastic bags, according to Curt Ebbesmeyer, that are in that swirling mess outside of Hawaii, or in the stomachs of birds which starve to death, but chips of pastic that come from computer monitors, from wrapping from plastic bottles.

I plan show this to my daughter, next time she rolls her eyes as I start picking up garbage on the beach, whether I have my beach naturalist hat on or not.