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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
OK, so this is about the most frightening thing I have ever heard of! I was out for dinner with a colleague and he mentioned this huge swath of plastic garbage in the Pacific somewhere between the North American Mainland and Hawaii.
A sailor chose to head into an area that most captains don’t traverse since it is known for doldrums (no winds) when he came across a sea of plastic garbage floating on the ocean.
OK, so that’s bad, right?
Well, it has been estimated to be twice the size of Texas!
There is a full story here: Our oceans are turning into plastic, are we?
When we sailed in Greece a few years back, we joked that the greatest hazard we found was the plastic garbage in the sea near Athens. I had no idea that things were so bad, but this only serves to highlight what we have done to the environment.
Plastics revolutionized the world…will they ultimately also destroy it? It is an impossible product to get away from. Yes, shunning plastic bags is a start, but just look around our homes and its overwhelming. Everything from your groceries to your computer are packed in plastic.
Can we ever clean up our mess?
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