Giant vortex of floating trash swirls in Pacific

Seattle Times, San Jose Mercury News by Paul Rogers | Aug. 4, 2009 (Special Report)
The "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," is a massive vortex of floating plastic trash estimated by some researchers to be twice the size of Texas.

Hoping to learn more about one of the most glaring examples of waste and environmental pollution on Earth, a group of scientists will set sail from San Francisco today to the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," a massive vortex of floating plastic trash estimated by some researchers to be twice the size of Texas. Full Story »

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 by John Louden - Aug. 4, 2009

Big picture, good sourcing, very informative.

From 1996-2006, NOAA removed 1.1 million pounds of derelict fishing gear from the reefs and beaches of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, a chain of mostly uninhabited atolls and islands that stretch 1,500 miles from Kauai to Midway, near the Garbage Patch. The beaches on those islands, because of their proximity to the currents known as the North Pacific Gyre, often are littered with cigarette lighters, fishing line, floats, toothbrushes, bottle caps and other floating junk, some of which is decades old.

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