The World's Dump: Ocean Garbage From Hawaii to Japan

The World's Dump: Ocean Garbage 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.

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Plastic soup, a large expansive bloc of garbage which floats the ocean from just west of California to near japan. I did not no this exsisted to the degree it is describe in this article. The author identifiys an environmental castastrophy
which we must understand and begin addressing immediately.

I found this article to be a good backgrounder for myself, and hopefully it will benefit you too.


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www.independent.co.uk...
www.commondreams.org...
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Originally posted by realmatrix


Plastic soup, a large expansive bloc of garbage which floats the ocean from just west of Califoria tro near japan. I did not no thiis exsited to the degree it is describe in this article. The author identifys a environmental castastrophy
which we must understamd and begin addressing immediately.

I found this article to be a good backgrounder for myself, and hopefully it will benefit you too.


(visit the link for the full news article)

You might actually want to post a link in here

As far as I know you're making this up

i don't think this qualifies as breaking news... although that size does seem quite a bit larger than i have heard before... but i am skeptical with out a legit source

reply to post by Quazga


Thanks...I was in the process of doing that when I saw your post...thanks! My cpy/pst function failed.....

Originally posted by purplemonkey
i don't think this qualifies as breaking news... although that size does seem quite a bit larger than i have heard before... but i am skeptical with out a legit source

They can certainly move the tread if it doesn't fit here...however I have never heard of this before, which is why I posted it here for discussion.

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here is an informative video about the 'plastic vortex'

au.youtube.com...