Thanks to my friend and neighbor, Jim Hardman, for telling me about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which I had not yet heard about.
Apparently, it is the size of Texas--a massive swirling of plastic in the North Pacific Ocean - located in the North Pacific Gyre, to be more specific. Check out these entries at Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch
And at..http://www.greatgarbagepatch.org/ - a site established to educate about the problem.
About 80% of the plastic in the swirl comes from the land, about 20% from boats. Let's do all we can to reduce our plastic waste--reduce, reuse, recycle!
Thanks!
Peace,
Jerry & Tara
Apparently, it is the size of Texas--a massive swirling of plastic in the North Pacific Ocean - located in the North Pacific Gyre, to be more specific. Check out these entries at Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch
And at..http://www.greatgarbagepatch.org/ - a site established to educate about the problem.
About 80% of the plastic in the swirl comes from the land, about 20% from boats. Let's do all we can to reduce our plastic waste--reduce, reuse, recycle!
Thanks!
Peace,
Jerry & Tara
1 comment:
I had not heard about this until last spring either. Amazing what isn't covered in the news! Why aren't they reporting this sort of thing?! People need to know about the problem before they decide to change to help fix it.
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