3.5 Billion Tons of Trash Swimming around in the Ocean?!!!!

This is really old news but the fact of the matter is that nobody really seems to be doing anything about it.  What's more is that our way of life around the world depends on the consumption of products that eventually find their way in the trash but our definition of trash is little no more a way of saying that they go as is back into the planet either in a river which empties into an ocean or simply swept under the carpet and buried back into the very earth from whence comes our food.