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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" (TreeHugger)
Deep Sea News' Kevin Zilnio points us to a great piece in The Independent describing what has become known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," or "trash vortex" - essentially a floating expanse of waste and debris in the Pacific Ocean now covering an area twice the size of the continental U.S. Believed to hold almost 100m tons of flotsam, this vast "plastic soup" stretches 500 nautical miles off the Californian coast, past Hawaii and almost as far as Japan:
- Saved By: carolinagirl and the_wako_kid
- Tags: environment , green , pollution , garbage , oceans , and great pacific garbage patch
- Groups: Environment and GREEN Culture.
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