A 2nd garbage patch: Plastic soup seen in Atlantic
This is very discouraging. There quite simply is no way to clean up all this trash. - DG
A 2nd garbage patch: Plastic soup seen in Atlantic
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Researchers are warning of a new blight on the ocean: a swirl of confetti-like plastic debris stretching over thousands of square miles (kilometers) in a remote expanse of the Atlantic Ocean.
The floating garbage — hard to spot from the surface and spun together by a vortex of currents — was documented by two groups of scientists who trawled the sea between scenic Bermuda and Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores islands.
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Tags: Atlantic, contamination, garbage, ocean, plastic, pollution, trash
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Permalink Reply by zoolady on
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Maybe I'm just dense...but I can't understand how there's no way to clean this up!
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Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on -
Well, the one we've know about for years is the size of Texas, or large. That's billions of tons of floating rubbish. I wish we could clean it up, but it would cost too much money and resources, not to mention that it would come back. Even if people didn't deliberatley pollute/trash the world, hurricanes, floods, and tornados would carry this stuff out to sea.
I hate it, but I know things won't change. -
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