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There is an excellent video of reporters from VBS.TV going out with a researcher to visit this place. Very well worth watching despite its length: http://www.v
by itistoday 17y ago
There is an excellent video of reporters from VBS.TV going out with a researcher to visit this place. Very well worth watching despite its length:
http://www.vbs.tv/newsroom/toxic-garbage-island-1-of-3--4 http://www.vbs.tv/newsroom/toxic-garbage-island-1-of-3--4
- ugh 17y agoUhhh. Calling it Garbage Island can only hurt that case. There is no large continuos plastic island the size of Texas (or smaller) in the Pacific. That doesn’t make the problem any smaller. Microscopic pieces of plastic entering the food chain is not what you would want. For more meat and less blah (1988): http://swfsc.noaa.gov/publications/TM/SWFSC/NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-154_P247.PDF http://swfsc.noaa.gov/publications/TM/SWFSC/NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWF... This one is a bit fresher (2001), if not quite as extensive: ftp://ftp.sccwrp.org/pub/download/DOCUMENTS/AnnualReports/1999AnnualReport/10_ar11.pdf PS, don’t wash your face http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19481226 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19481226 :)