great pacific ocean garbage patch
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100-million tonnes of garbage. Flotsam - floating debris. Spread out over an area twice the size of the United States. It's all floating off the shores of California and Hawaii and other Pacific Rim nations. Much of it comes in the form of discarded plastic. From AlterNet: 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 t
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Independent uk: A scavenger in a dugout canoe paddles through a sea of garbage along a Manila waterway Think of the plastic soup, the huge floating plastic garbagebergs in the Pacific Ocean that are twice the size of the United States. Independent uk: 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, scien
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This is absolutely disgusting: "Plastic Patch in Pacific Grows to Twice Size of U.S." The enormous soup of plastic debris in the Pacific has grown rapidly to twice the size of the U.S. An ongoing voyage into the foul soup of garbage has revealed it is composed of two huge vortices one in the eastern Pacific and one in the western Pacific. The vortices are maintained by a confluence of subsurface currents and by regions of high atmospheric pressure above the subtropical Pacific Ocean. These pl
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The idea is to give the viewer a feel for what it might be like in the ocean directly beneath what&39s known as the Pacific Garbage Patch. ...
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He said now the ocean surface looks like "plastic soup" that poses great danger to mankind and sea animals. The ???Great Pacific Garbage Patch?? was discovered ...
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When I see kids in the street setting off fireworks or spraypainting something I really don??t think it is unusual at all, despite the handwringing and exortations that kids are ???out of control?? that we see in the media. If I was growing up now and looking at the world around I would see a world where violence is glorified and/or excused, not by children but by adults. I would also see a world where those older than me are and/or have been trashing the place and doing their best to forget abou
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No tech cure for oceans ???damned?? by plastic Tue, Mar 4th, 2008 posted by admin 08:03 PM Plastic contamination in the world??s oceans is worse than previously imagined and no amount of technology can clean it up, according to Capt. Charles Moore. The oceanographer returned Feb. 23 from a 5-week odyssey in the Pacific Ocean with samples showing 48 parts plastic for every part of plankton. ???We are damned to a future of pollution by plastic,??? said Moore, who has spent more than a decade
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TreeHugger has a post on the gigantic meal of rubbish soup being prepared by eddies in the Pacific ocean - slowly collecting the vast torrents of rubbish we discard. Luckily it isn't all wasted - fish eat some of it, then we eat them... 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
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Floating in the Northern Pacific Ocean lays a huge expanse of plastic refuse. This garbage patch is actually two attached areas on either side of Hawaii, ...
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Dandelion Salad By Kathy Marks Asia-Pacific Correspondent and Daniel Howden The Independent Tuesday, 5 February 2008 larger view 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 nautica
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Rubbish dump found floating in Pacific Ocean is twice the size of AmericaLast updated at 00:20am on 6th February 2008 Comments 22 A rubbish dump twice the size of the United States has been discovered floating in the Pacific Ocean. The vast expanse of debris, made up of plastic junk including footballs, kayaks, Lego blocks and carrier bags, is kept together by swirling underwater currents. It stretches from 500 nautical miles off the Californian coast, across the northern Pacific,
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It contains 100 million tons of garbage and swirls between 500 nautical miles off the California coast to near Japan, almost twice the size of the continental US. ???It moves around like a big animal without a leash.??? When that animal comes close to land, as it does at the Hawaiian archipelago, the results are dramatic. ???The garbage patch barfs, and you get a beach covered with this confetti of plastic.??? Most of the garbage is disposable plastic trash, killing birds and marine animals. Even wor
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what we have done to the pacific ocean.. February 7th, 2008 ???..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 Hawa
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In 1967, they were the future. Now the future's here, and it's not pretty: 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,
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Image courtesy of Greenpeace 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 cont...
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The Pacific Ocean is home to a vast expanse of floating plastic trash. 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. Charles Moore, an American oceanographer who discovered the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" or "trash vortex", believes that about 100 million tons o
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The Independent reports: 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. Charle
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Charles Moore, an American oceanographer who discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch or "trash vortex", believes that about 100 million tons of flotsam ...
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There is a connection between the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and Mr Brown&39s plan to abolish the free plastic bag. It is Rebecca Hosking, the BBC film-maker ...
www.telegraph.co.uk
The great Pacific Ocean Plastic Garbage Dump, the Pacific Ocean Plastic Soup, now stretches from 500 miles off the California coast, past Hawaii almost to ...
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I am an engineer that is concerned about the environment. When I read about the garbage patch i was horrified!! and started to think about how do remove it, with small means or at least to begin with. The idea is this, imagine an automatic vessel floating together with the plastic garbage, locating the plastics and converting it to fuel to further drive itself. Processes to convert plastic into fuel can be found in many places: http://carthik.net/blog/vault/2006/0...comment-86
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Although its CEOs probably haven&39t seen the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ---- the cluster of plastic garbage twice the size of Texas that has formed far out ...
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Charles Moore, an American oceanographer who discovered the ???Great Pacific Garbage Patch??? or ???trash vortex???, believes that about 100 million tons of flotsam are circulating in the region. Marcus Eriksen, a research director of the US-based Algalita Marine Research Foundation, which Mr Moore founded, said yesterday: ???The original idea that people had was that it was an island of plastic garbage that you could almost walk on. It is not quite like that. It is almost like a plastic soup. It is endle
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... to form the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch that now covers an area twice the size of the United States and weighs about 100 million tons. ...
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But their latest voyage found the pollution even thicker in the "highway" of ocean leading to the great Garbage Patch, according to Moore, who founded the ...
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link 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. Charles Moore, an American
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Oceans of plastic garbage ???It has been described as the world's largest rubbish dump, or the Pacific plastic soup, and it is starting to alarm scientists. It is a vast area of plastic debris and other flotsam drifting in the northern Pacific Ocean, held there by swirling ocean currents.??? Floating rubbish dump 'bigger than US?? At last we are hearing some serious discussion on climate change, but there are other areas of global environmental shame that should be on the agenda. TomCat over at
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From Delegate Todd Schuler D-Baltimore County: Dear Neighbors, As Marylanders, we face monumental environmental challenges. We are the stewards of the Chesapeake Bay, North America??s largest fresh water estuary. Our coastal areas are threatened by the potential catastrophes inherent to Global Climate Change. The traffic associated with the two beltways and Interstate 95 create greenhouse emissions and smog. And, our rural farmland and forests are under constant attack from suburban sprawl.
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The oldest flotsam often comes from the garbage patch, a mid-Pacific doldrums roughly the size of Alberta to which much of the world&39s floating junk ...
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That??s not plankton or seaweed forming that whirlpool off the eastern coast of northern Japan. That??s a huge ???soup??? of floating garbage. If that junk is in the ocean and the fish are eating that junk and we eat the fish, then we are eating that junk too!! It??s sickening, isn??t it? This post on Japan Probe got me to google it out and I found the above image here.
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind
100-million tonnes of garbage. Flotsam - floating debris. Spread out over an area twice the size of the United States. It's all floating off the shores of California and Hawaii and other Pacific Rim nations. Much of it comes in the form of discarded plastic. From AlterNet: 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 t
the-mound-of-sound.blogspot.com
Next Time They Hand You a Plastic Bag
Independent uk: A scavenger in a dugout canoe paddles through a sea of garbage along a Manila waterway Think of the plastic soup, the huge floating plastic garbagebergs in the Pacific Ocean that are twice the size of the United States. Independent uk: 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, scien
mainstusa.blogspot.com
A Gigantic Reason Not to Use Plastic
This is absolutely disgusting: "Plastic Patch in Pacific Grows to Twice Size of U.S." The enormous soup of plastic debris in the Pacific has grown rapidly to twice the size of the U.S. An ongoing voyage into the foul soup of garbage has revealed it is composed of two huge vortices one in the eastern Pacific and one in the western Pacific. The vortices are maintained by a confluence of subsurface currents and by regions of high atmospheric pressure above the subtropical Pacific Ocean. These pl
www.raisingkaine.com
Jimmie Nord brings ocean dead zones into the gallery - North Coast Journal
The idea is to give the viewer a feel for what it might be like in the ocean directly beneath what&39s known as the Pacific Garbage Patch. ...
www.northcoastjournal.com
Dumping ground: Pacific or ???plastic ocean?? - XPRESS
He said now the ocean surface looks like "plastic soup" that poses great danger to mankind and sea animals. The ???Great Pacific Garbage Patch?? was discovered ...
www.xpress4me.com
ADULTS OUT OF CONTROL
When I see kids in the street setting off fireworks or spraypainting something I really don??t think it is unusual at all, despite the handwringing and exortations that kids are ???out of control?? that we see in the media. If I was growing up now and looking at the world around I would see a world where violence is glorified and/or excused, not by children but by adults. I would also see a world where those older than me are and/or have been trashing the place and doing their best to forget abou
michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com
No tech cure for oceans ???damned?? by plastic
No tech cure for oceans ???damned?? by plastic Tue, Mar 4th, 2008 posted by admin 08:03 PM Plastic contamination in the world??s oceans is worse than previously imagined and no amount of technology can clean it up, according to Capt. Charles Moore. The oceanographer returned Feb. 23 from a 5-week odyssey in the Pacific Ocean with samples showing 48 parts plastic for every part of plankton. ???We are damned to a future of pollution by plastic,??? said Moore, who has spent more than a decade
www.gafno.com
The Great Ocean Garbage Dump
TreeHugger has a post on the gigantic meal of rubbish soup being prepared by eddies in the Pacific ocean - slowly collecting the vast torrents of rubbish we discard. Luckily it isn't all wasted - fish eat some of it, then we eat them... 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
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Toxic Soup of Plastic Debris, Twice the Size of US, Forms in the ... - Natural News.com
Floating in the Northern Pacific Ocean lays a huge expanse of plastic refuse. This garbage patch is actually two attached areas on either side of Hawaii, ...
www.naturalnews.com
The world??s rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan By Kathy Marks & Daniel Howden
Dandelion Salad By Kathy Marks Asia-Pacific Correspondent and Daniel Howden The Independent Tuesday, 5 February 2008 larger view 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 nautica
dandelionsalad.wordpress.com
Rubbish dump found floating in Pacific Ocean is twice the size of America
Rubbish dump found floating in Pacific Ocean is twice the size of AmericaLast updated at 00:20am on 6th February 2008 Comments 22 A rubbish dump twice the size of the United States has been discovered floating in the Pacific Ocean. The vast expanse of debris, made up of plastic junk including footballs, kayaks, Lego blocks and carrier bags, is kept together by swirling underwater currents. It stretches from 500 nautical miles off the Californian coast, across the northern Pacific,
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
It contains 100 million tons of garbage and swirls between 500 nautical miles off the California coast to near Japan, almost twice the size of the continental US. ???It moves around like a big animal without a leash.??? When that animal comes close to land, as it does at the Hawaiian archipelago, the results are dramatic. ???The garbage patch barfs, and you get a beach covered with this confetti of plastic.??? Most of the garbage is disposable plastic trash, killing birds and marine animals. Even wor
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what we have done to the pacific ocean..
what we have done to the pacific ocean.. February 7th, 2008 ???..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 Hawa
whoar.co.nz
One word: Plastics
In 1967, they were the future. Now the future's here, and it's not pretty: 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,
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: "Out of Sight, Out of Mind"
Image courtesy of Greenpeace 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 cont...
www.treehugger.com
Floating in Plastic Waste
The Pacific Ocean is home to a vast expanse of floating plastic trash. 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. Charles Moore, an American oceanographer who discovered the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" or "trash vortex", believes that about 100 million tons o
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What a dump
The Independent reports: 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. Charle
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Litter turns Pacific into &39plastic soup&39 - Independent Online
Charles Moore, an American oceanographer who discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch or "trash vortex", believes that about 100 million tons of flotsam ...
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Charles Clover&39s weekly column takes an inside look at the environment - Telegraph.co.uk
There is a connection between the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and Mr Brown&39s plan to abolish the free plastic bag. It is Rebecca Hosking, the BBC film-maker ...
www.telegraph.co.uk
George Bush Bill Clinton Devastated the Mexican Californian Beaches - OpEdNews
The great Pacific Ocean Plastic Garbage Dump, the Pacific Ocean Plastic Soup, now stretches from 500 miles off the California coast, past Hawaii almost to ...
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The great pacific ocean garbage patch
I am an engineer that is concerned about the environment. When I read about the garbage patch i was horrified!! and started to think about how do remove it, with small means or at least to begin with. The idea is this, imagine an automatic vessel floating together with the plastic garbage, locating the plastics and converting it to fuel to further drive itself. Processes to convert plastic into fuel can be found in many places: http://carthik.net/blog/vault/2006/0...comment-86
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Environmentalism is in the bag - North County Times
Although its CEOs probably haven&39t seen the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ---- the cluster of plastic garbage twice the size of Texas that has formed far out ...
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Update on the Great Plastic Vortex Consuming the Oceans
Charles Moore, an American oceanographer who discovered the ???Great Pacific Garbage Patch??? or ???trash vortex???, believes that about 100 million tons of flotsam are circulating in the region. Marcus Eriksen, a research director of the US-based Algalita Marine Research Foundation, which Mr Moore founded, said yesterday: ???The original idea that people had was that it was an island of plastic garbage that you could almost walk on. It is not quite like that. It is almost like a plastic soup. It is endle
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD - Macon Telegraph
... to form the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch that now covers an area twice the size of the United States and weighs about 100 million tons. ...
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No tech cure for oceans &39damned&39 by plastic - CNET News.com
But their latest voyage found the pollution even thicker in the "highway" of ocean leading to the great Garbage Patch, according to Moore, who founded the ...
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Huge plastic debris fields in Pacific, twice the size of US
link 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. Charles Moore, an American
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Oceans of plastic garbage
Oceans of plastic garbage ???It has been described as the world's largest rubbish dump, or the Pacific plastic soup, and it is starting to alarm scientists. It is a vast area of plastic debris and other flotsam drifting in the northern Pacific Ocean, held there by swirling ocean currents.??? Floating rubbish dump 'bigger than US?? At last we are hearing some serious discussion on climate change, but there are other areas of global environmental shame that should be on the agenda. TomCat over at
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Release: Todd Schuler: Plastic Grocery Bag Ban
From Delegate Todd Schuler D-Baltimore County: Dear Neighbors, As Marylanders, we face monumental environmental challenges. We are the stewards of the Chesapeake Bay, North America??s largest fresh water estuary. Our coastal areas are threatened by the potential catastrophes inherent to Global Climate Change. The traffic associated with the two beltways and Interstate 95 create greenhouse emissions and smog. And, our rural farmland and forests are under constant attack from suburban sprawl.
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Flotsam fever - Globe and Mail
The oldest flotsam often comes from the garbage patch, a mid-Pacific doldrums roughly the size of Alberta to which much of the world&39s floating junk ...
www.theglobeandmail.com
Giant Garbage Whirlpool off the coast of Japan
That??s not plankton or seaweed forming that whirlpool off the eastern coast of northern Japan. That??s a huge ???soup??? of floating garbage. If that junk is in the ocean and the fish are eating that junk and we eat the fish, then we are eating that junk too!! It??s sickening, isn??t it? This post on Japan Probe got me to google it out and I found the above image here.
blog.q-taro.com