The front entrance area of my residence has transformed into some kind of gyre. The wind brings plastic bags and assorted other trash in from the street and it never leaves. On the bright side, there is usually an intact plastic bag there for me to but all the ragged ones into. I have been tidying once or twice a day but I am now considering taking a break to allow an impressive amount of plastic garbage to gather so I can make a video clip of it swirling around.
Wind is the inevitable vector that takes discarded plastic bags away from civilization and out into the environment, including waterways and oceans. Plastic bags often escape garbage cans, dumpsters and landfills in this way.
