Image from source, The Independent (click to enlarge)
I just found an update about this story (which I originally wrote about here) on AmericaBlog this morning. If this nasty, disgusting garbage dump is this huge now, what in the world can be done about it? And how long before it fills all of the oceans on Earth? This is very, VERY disturbing. So, hey, conservatives! Do you still think it's impossible for man to have an effect on the environment?
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The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan
A "plastic soup" of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said.
The vast expanse of debris – in effect the world's largest rubbish dump – is held in place by swirling underwater currents. This drifting "soup" stretches from about 500 nautical miles off the Californian coast, across the northern Pacific, past Hawaii and almost as far as Japan. . .
The vast expanse of debris – in effect the world's largest rubbish dump – is held in place by swirling underwater currents. This drifting "soup" stretches from about 500 nautical miles off the Californian coast, across the northern Pacific, past Hawaii and almost as far as Japan. . .
Once you get out of the fetal position, read more at: The Independent
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