It’s no secret that there’s a huge amount of plastic garbage floating around in the North Pacific. But in a desperate attempt to fix the problem, a group of activists are trying a new approach—lobbying the United Nations to recognize one mass of trash as an actual country, so that the world’s real governments will have to help to clean it up.
These Activists Are Trying to Get a Giant Trash Patch in the Pacific Recognized as a Country
The Trash Isles have their own currency and passport
