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Hometree
03-30-2010, 05:20 PM
Not sure if there has been mention of this - but it is gaining more awareness how much nasty plastic is floating around in our oceans and the creatures being affected by it!

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/2009/05/great-pacific-garbage-patch.php?page=1) watch the slideshow

"The swirling mass of plastic soup in the Pacific Ocean, known by a handful of names -- the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, North Pacific Gyre, Trash Vortex, and Plastic Graveyard among them -- has been gaining notoriety lately, for all the wrong reasons. It's ballooned to twice the size of the continental U.S., causing a variety of problems, but what does it really look like out there? "

Ethereal Blue Being
06-21-2010, 06:56 AM
This thing is monstorous-- Its Twice as big as the US.!!!! When i first heard of this 15 or 20 years ago it was as big as Texas. be sure to watch the slide show and read the captions. shocking!!!!!

Hometree
06-21-2010, 08:52 AM
This one hits home even more....

An Ocean of Plastic...In Birds' Guts (http://planetgreen.discovery.com/slideshows/travel-outdoors/chris-jordan-midway-birds.html)