Plastic rubbish blights Atlantic Ocean

pampango

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Wed Feb-24-10 07:51 AM
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Plastic rubbish blights Atlantic Ocean

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8534052.stm

Scientists have discovered an area of the North Atlantic Ocean where plastic debris accumulates.

The region is said to compare with the well-documented "great Pacific garbage patch".

Karen Lavender Law of the Sea Education Association told the BBC that the issue of plastics had been "largely ignored" in the Atlantic.

The maximum "plastic density" was 200,000 pieces of debris per square kilometre. "That's a maximum that is comparable with the Great Pacific Garbage Patch," said Dr Lavender Law.

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G_j

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Wed Feb-24-10 09:14 AM
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1. k&R

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Blue Owl

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Wed Feb-24-10 11:09 AM
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2. Death by convenience

Our planet may just someday choke to death on disposable plastic.

Silly humans.

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Thu Feb-25-10 02:30 AM
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