Thursday, June 05, 2008

Toxic Soup of Plastic Debris, Twice the Size of US, Forms in the Pacific Ocean


It is twice the size of the continental United States, yet you cannot
set foot on it. Scientists have named it "Plastic Soup", and
appropriately so. 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, known as the Western and Eastern Pacific Garbage Patches.

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