Al Gore Is the First Citizen of the 'Trash Isles'

Campaigners want a vast area of floating garbage in the ocean to be the world's newest country—and they've already got more would-be citizens than some real countries. 

Al Gore is on board as the first honorary citizen of the "Trash Isles," which is what activists are calling the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a huge part of the Pacific Ocean inundated with floating plastic trash, Reuters reports. "We want to shrink this nation. 

We don't want any more plastic added," Gore says. "The oceans are crucial to our survival and we need to protect them." More than 100,000 other people have signed a petition to become "citizens" and pressure the United Nations to accept the Trash Isles as the world's 196th country.

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