TimesOnline:A high-seas mission departs from San Francisco next month to map and explore a sinister and shifting 21st-century continent: one twice the size of Texas and created from six million tonnes of discarded plastic. Scientists and conservationists on the expedition will begin attempts to retrieve and recycle a monument to throwaway living in the middle [...]
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First Great Pacific Garbage Patch Clean-Up Effort to Begin
Posted: May 5, 2009 by treylord in Environment, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Project Kaisei0
First Great Pacific Garbage Patch Clean-Up Effort to Begin
Posted: May 5, 2009 by treylord in Environment, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Project KaiseiTimesOnline:A high-seas mission departs from San Francisco next month to map and explore a sinister and shifting 21st-century continent: one twice the size of Texas and created from six million tonnes of discarded plastic. Scientists and conservationists on the expedition will begin attempts to retrieve and recycle a monument to throwaway living in the middle [...]
