It occurred to me as I was watching some of the storm surge videos from Ian that storms like this are probably a big source of the "plastic in the ocean" problem. Storm surges come in, wash through and destroy a bunch of houses, trailer parks and other buildings, not to mention cars, boats and other vehicles, all filled with various assortments of bottles, cans and other plastic items, and all kinds of other things, much of which get washed back into the sea as the storm surge recedes. The Gulf of Mexico is now filled with gobs of junk from people's houses and cars that wasn't there a week ago. Ocean currents will eventually take that stuff all around the world's oceans.
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