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Sunday, November 25, 2007

Islands of plastic in the mid-Pacific


If you haven't heard about the floating plastic in the mid-Pacific, here are some interesting links. Not recent, but still current. Our casual conveniences can make waves far away...



Most plastic bags end up in landfills, part of the millions of tons of plastic garbage Americans dump each year. But whether jettisoned illegally by ships at sea, washed out from land during storms, or, as in the case of the chalupa bags, accidentally lost overboard from containerships, countless tons of plastic refuse end up drifting on the high seas....

The correspondent who forwarded this link to me commented: Donovan Hohn is one of the really great writers that no one knows about.

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