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The Worlds Oceans are becoming Plastic Soup! - Harbourmaster - 01-10-2008
The plastic killing fields
December 29, 2007
Continents of garbage in the oceans are killing marine life and releasing poisons that enter the human food chain, Amanda Woods
reports.
In one of the few places on Earth where people can rarely be found, the human race has well and truly made its mark. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean lies a floating garbage patch twice the size of Britain. A place where the water is filled with six times as much plastic as plankton. This plastic-plankton soup is entering the food chain and heading for your dinner table.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/the-plastic-killing-fields/2007/12/28/1198778702627.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
Re: The Worlds Oceans are becoming Plastic Soup! - OWC Jamie - 01-10-2008
Re: The Worlds Oceans are becoming Plastic Soup! - mstudio - 01-10-2008
This is the crap we were talking about over 30 years ago. I knew it would happen, just didn't know when it would come to fruition. No one listened then, I hope they do now.
Re: The Worlds Oceans are becoming Plastic Soup! - $tevie - 01-10-2008
You crazy liberals and your scare stories. I bet you voted for Al Gore.
Re: The Worlds Oceans are becoming Plastic Soup! - RgrF - 01-11-2008
>With gyres in each of the oceans, connected by debris highways, the problem isn't restricted to the North Pacific Gyre. It is estimated there are more than 13,000 pieces of plastic litter on every square kilometre of the ocean surface.
Maybe if they renamed them, something like the the Pacific Monsanto Plastic Graveyard gyre or the Atlantic DuPont Plastic Graveyard gyre ...