Abstract: Shredded, separated trash from which a portion of recyclable materials have been retrieved and recycled back into industry, leaving only unusable waste material, is compressed into a bale having a density sufficient to cause the bale to immediately sink in salt water and having a shape causing it to remain at the spot on the ocean floor to which it has sunk, immovable by ocean currents. The bale is sprayed both inside and out with an organic material which serves as food for micro-organisms which use the sunken bales of trash as feeding stations.