A patch of garbage in the ocean twice the size of texas
SOURCE: DIGG • 2009-11-11
TOPICS:
Ocean Pollution • Waste • Pacific Ocean • Ocean Currents • Physical Oceanography • Great Pacific Garbage Patch • Oceanic Gyre • Garbage • Environment
[90 diggs @ Environment] Scientists say the garbage patch is just one of five that may be caught in giant gyres scattered around the worlds oceans. It is a giant island of trash.
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