Pass it on……
http://www.greatgarbagepatch.org/
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Eastern Garbage Patch, is a gyre of marine litter in the central North Pacific Ocean located roughly between 135° to 155°W and 35° to 42°N and estimated to be twice the size of Texas. The patch is characterized by exceptionally high concentrations of suspended plastic and other debris that have been trapped by the currents of the North Pacific Gyre.
The garbage patches present numerous hazards to marine life, fishing and tourism.
Plastic constitutes 90 percent of all trash floating in the world’s oceans . The United Nations Environment Program estimated in 2006 that every square mile of ocean hosts 46,000 pieces of floating plastic . In some areas, the amount of plastic outweighs the amount of plankton by a ratio of six to one. Of the more than 200 billion pounds of plastic the world produces each year, about 10 percent ends up in the ocean.
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Pics-A turtle who grew up around a plastic garbage ring
I want to thank my friend Mauricio for sending me the preceding in an email.
He said “lets do something about it today, if we dont we will not have a tomorrow.” -MM
Until this morning I never heard of this abomination. In the 1970s I used to send messages in used wine bottles overboard in the Atlantic, but perhaps the whole idea has worn thin.