The Garbage Patch

The Garbage Patch

The Garbage Patch is a giant eddy in the Pacific ocean the size of Texas, full of floating plastic trash. It's the kind of thing you'd think was science fiction until you read about it in the Seattle Times. Here's another, more detailed article.

This patch, and others like it, show up here on shore as skim-feeding birds whose carcasses wash up on shore with a stomach full of plastic detritus.

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whoa. Speaks volumes about how we account for our waste. RYC: in this 'war on terror' we have established through Bush's vision that there are no rules. Do we follow the Geneva convention rules according to torture? Do we follow the standards for using the UN when declaring war? Everything we have done through our President's leadership has been to win at all costs with no rules. To apply them now is fascinating to me...
- 5/30/2006 3:12 AM
- Leonidas
creepy...
There's a reason the top animal in Animal Farm was a pig. We're so smart.
- 5/30/2006 12:33 PM
- James
Today's Daily Downer, brought to you by HomerTheBrave and The American Plastics Council.
- 5/30/2006 4:11 PM
- sean
*bows*
- 5/30/2006 4:34 PM
- HomerTheBrave

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