Great Pacific Garbage Patch

On his blog for June 25, Zac Sunderland mentioned he was nearing the coordinates of this phenomenon called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch where tons of plastic somehow accumulated due to the water currents.

I'd never heard of it before. So I do what i usually do and I went to Wikipedia and looked it up.

Click here for the wikipedia article about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

It's disturbing that garbage collects like this over such a vast area. Millions of pieces of plastic per square mile. And the area might be as small as Texas or as large as double the size of the continental USA.

What has the human race been doing to it's home? Being a pack rat is looking better to me.

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So I wrote the words above on Thursday night. I pre-set the date and time to publish it on Friday, June 27 at 6:30. When I finished... I decided to go to MySpace to play a game. And on MySpace, there was a blurb about a video about "garbage island"... which is another term used to describe the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Check out the videos produced by VBS for a documentary. Their MySpace page shows 3 videos of a 12 part series. It's fascinating and troubling at the same time.

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