After a month spent studying the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," a vortex of waste twice the size of Texas in the North Pacific Ocean where there's a 36-to-1 ratio of plastic to plankton, the scientists behind Project Kaisei offered tours of their vessel and talked with Mother Jones' Sam Baldwin, Andy Kroll, and Taylor Wiles about finding lawn chairs and laundry baskets floating a thousand miles at sea. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
This is not a complete piece - this is a teaser. While I understand the new media construct and the Web requirement that leverages a different kind of lede, and the fact that this is a very important issue - this particular link is not actually journalism but rather an advertisement for the greater study. If this 3 writer short - is the equivalent of 'sound-bite' journalism. Not necessarily a bad thing - it primarily deals with the 'What' and 'Where.' This is an excerpt.
This is also a very important matter - that is directly tied to a few major interest groups. * Plastics are generally made from petroleum. * Trash and recycling companies exist mainly from large municipal contracts. * Organized crime has been widely rumored to have strong influence in recycling, trash collection, carting companies and with landfill operators. This ecological nightmare is a direct ramification of greed and shareholder avarice - and we should be very grateful for ... More »
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