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Date: April 25th, 2008

Garbage Island - Part 1

25 April, 2008 (19:11) | Environment | 1 comment

I’ve mentioned the North Pacific Gyre before. It’s a vast floating sea of man made garbage, mostly plastics, about the size of Texas. Here’s a map of it

The following documentary from VBSTV follows a crew as the sail out to the gyre and spend a week there collecting samples of the debris. It is in [...]

 

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