Hot Coffee:"Have A Plastic Merry Christmas"

Joyous Merry Christmas to all, may your New Year be as bright. This past Christmas morn, millions upon millions of young revelers awaken to the joyous sights, sounds and smells of Christmas. Bright colored wrapping paper hastily discarded for the hidden prize beneath. To no surprise, the reinforced packaging of the gifts plastic creates unwanted pause, delaying the moment till the gift is in hand. After the oohs and awes have faded, the paper, plastics and other assorted trash is collected, sometimes sorted and discarded. Fast forward to the Ocean. I once read a fact, that there was/is a floating mass the size of the United States, in the Ocean. What ocean, if there is one for every ocean, I do not know. With the billions upon billions that the oil/plastic industry reaped from consumers this holiday season alone, You would think they would have come up with a plastic that dissolved into nothing in salty seawater or displaced harmlessly into nitrogen rich soil. But wheres the profit in that? Swollen bank accounts are not the only way  to gauge profit. As a disabled Veteran, it chokes the hell out of me to say, that this governments over excessive spend on the Navy's newest class aircraft carrier, engorged by cost overruns, catapult designs and a host of other problems alone could have funded the research. I am not anti oil, plastic, Navy, Christmas or anything else, I just was sitting here with a cup of hot coffee, and wanted to say hello.