Plastic2Oil Inc (PTOI)

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Just for fun - garbage math:

Texas is 678,354,145,920 m2
2xTexas is 1,356,708,291,840 m2
Sailing back-and-forth sucking up all garbage within a 100m swath will mean you need to zig-zag for 13,567,083 km

A cargo ship burns 280 L/km (src: get http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_fuel_does_a_container_ship_burn)
So 13.6 million km burns 3,798,783,217 litres of fuel
Which can be generated from 3,798,783,217 kg of plastic
Thats 3.8 millions tons of plastic.

According to http://www.greatgarbagepatch.org/ there are "approximately 3.5 millions of tons of trash" there, so...

If its all plastic, then indeed, this endeavor (minus staff salaries, operating costs, etc.) can BREAK EVEN.

Cool.