Junk from Japan, Enjoy!

Not only is Japan irradiating the Pacific Ocean and its sealife with Fukushima fallout, but its tsunami debris are headed our way too. A floating island of debris the size of Texas is sitting on the ocean surface 1700 miles off the coast, between Hawaii and California. Some debris already reached Alaskan shores back in April, 2012. It is estimated the debris island weighs over one million tons. The conglomeration contains just about everything you can think of that floats and was destroyed by the tsunami of March, 2011: boats, houses, electrical appliances, furniture, and plastic consumer items. All of it was dragged out to sea by the huge waves. NOAA says the movement of the junk remains unpredictable and it could wash ashore anywhere on the Pacific coast within the next few years. The Japanese ministry of environment says about 5 million tons of rubbish left Japan in the aftermath of the tsunami.