Thursday, February 17, 2011

Great Pacific Garbage Patch


Really cool map displaying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (click to learn more), caused by the combination of human carelessness and oceanic currents. People think, "out-of-sight, out-of-mind", but this really affects all of us. Solar radiation, in time, breaks down a lot of the plastics and creates small particles which become harder and harder to eradicate with current technology.

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