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--- the_great_pacific_garbage_patch [2009-08-05 16:24] – 83.101.32.140
+++ the_great_pacific_garbage_patch [2014-08-20 16:07] – [reading] nik
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 videos >> http://www.celsias.com/article/searching-for-the-pacifics-mythical-garbage-island/
+==== cleaning ====
+"A project that is taking on an appalling problem with practical solutions and creating commercial diesel fuel technology at the same time. [...] Project Kaisei, a new group setting sail in August [2009] to research and clean up the Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch."
+http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-liz-thomson/planet-ocean-riding-a-gre_b_218493.html
+==== Atlantic (north and south) Indian and Pacific (North and south) Gyres of Junk====
+"The five major oceanic gyres make up about a quarter of the Earth’s surface. Underneath the apparent chaos of the world’s weather, the gyres turn like clockworks, driven by the sun and the Earth’s rotation. A bit of flotsam entering the current off the coast of Brazil might make it all the way to West Africa and then bob on back to where it started in about three years. Or it might catch an eddy and maroon in mid-ocean."
+https://medium.com/matter/the-terrifying-true-story-of-the-garbage-that-could-kill-the-whole-human-race-b17eebd6d54
 ==== reading ====
   * http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Moore-Trashed-PacificNov03.htm
+  * https://medium.com/matter/the-terrifying-true-story-of-the-garbage-that-could-kill-the-whole-human-race-b17eebd6d54
   * http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0802-06.htm
   * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch