The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Apparently there’s a huge collection of plastic garbage floating just below the surface in the middle of the Pacific. Apparently it’s twice the size of Texas. Scary stuff.
http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Trashing-Oceans-Plastic4nov02.htm
Read about it here, or listen to this interview on NPR.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15713260
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Filed under: Main on December 30th, 2007