A Floating Landfill in the Pacific
For over 60 years the plastic trash from around the Pacific Rim has been slowly accumulating at the junction of several ocean currents in the Pacific Ocean. Estimated at twice the size of Texas, this island of trash, known as the “Eastern Garbage Patch” is lurking about halfway between Hawaii and the mainland United States.
Worse than just sea-going litter, the toxins in much of this waste is finding itself entering the human food chain through the fish that absorb the floating bits. Only now are efforts being made to understand this mess, much less find ways to clean it up.
Guy Newey of AFP takes you on a Voyage to the Center of the “Plastic Vortex”
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