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==== The Great Pacific Garbage Patch // plague of plastics ====

"The atoll is littered with decomposing remains, grisly wreaths of feathers and bone surrounding colorful piles of bottle caps, plastic dinosaurs, checkers, highlighter pens, perfume bottles, fishing line and small Styrofoam balls. [...] Albatross fly hundreds of miles in their search for food for their young. Their flight paths from Midway often take them over what is perhaps the world's largest dump: a slowly rotating mass of trash-laden water about twice the size of Texas. This is known as the Eastern Garbage Patch, part of a system of currents called the North Pacific subtropical gyre. Located halfway between San Francisco and Hawaii, the garbage patch is an area of slack winds and sluggish currents where flotsam collects from around the Pacific, much like foam piling up in the calm center of a hot tub. Curtis Ebbesmeyer has been studying the clockwise swirl of plastic debris so long, he talks about it as if he were tracking a beast."

===reading===

  * http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Moore-Trashed-PacificNov03.htm
  * http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0802-06.htm
  * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch
  * http://marine-litter.gpa.unep.org/documents/World%27s_largest_landfill.pdf
  * http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_9_112/ai_110737008/print
  * http://www.satyamag.com/apr07/moore.html
  * "is it real?" > http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/12/are-there-reall.html
  * sometimes part of [[GhostNet]] tracking > http://www.highseasghost.net/html/buoystatus.Gyre.html
  * [[north pacific gyre]]