http://www.independent.co.uk/environ...an-778016.html
Quote:
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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big problem is that plastic breaks down into nano sized particles that are consumed by animals in the food chain and eventually humans....
how quickly we fucked this planet up in just under 200 years.....