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 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-liz-thomson/planet-ocean-riding-a-gre_b_218493.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-liz-thomson/planet-ocean-riding-a-gre_b_218493.html
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 +==== Atlantic (north and south) Indian and Pacific (North and south) Gyres of Junk====
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 +"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."
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 +https://medium.com/matter/the-terrifying-true-story-of-the-garbage-that-could-kill-the-whole-human-race-b17eebd6d54
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 ==== reading ==== ==== reading ====
  
   * http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Moore-Trashed-PacificNov03.htm   * 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://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0802-06.htm
   * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch   * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch
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