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Sustain Jefferson Co, SMcDonald (vitalearth@gmail.com) thought you might find this article from news.com.au/couriermail/ interesting:
This is a great support for taking plastics out of the waste stream and increasing the use of bio-degradable materials. Scientists are studying a huge waste island and tracing the plastics that have broken down to food systems and animal digestive tracks!
Floating dump 'bigger than US'
From: AAPIT has been described as the world's largest rubbish dump, or the Pacific plastic soup, and it is starting to alarm scientists. It is a vast area of floating plastic debris.
It is a vast area of plastic debris and other flotsam drifting in the northern Pacific Ocean, held there by swirling ocean currents.
Discovered in 1997 by American sailor Charles Moore, what is also called the great Pacific garbage patch is now alarming some with its ever-growing size and possible impact on human health.
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