The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is ‘Increasing Exponentially’
Well shit.
Greed and stupidity is going to kill us yet.
Seventy-nine thousand tons of plastic debris, in the form of 1.8 trillion pieces, now occupy an area three times the size of France in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii, a scientific team reported on Thursday. The amount of plastic found in this area, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is “increasing exponentially,” according to the surveyors, who used two planes and 18 boats to assess the ocean pollution.
“We wanted to have a clear, precise picture of what the patch looked like,” said Laurent Lebreton, the lead oceanographer for the Ocean Cleanup Foundation and the lead author of the study. The Garbage Patch has been described before.
But this new survey estimates that the mass of plastic contained there is four to 16 times larger than previously supposed, and it is continuing to accumulate because of ocean currents and careless humans both onshore and offshore.
Greed and stupidity is going to kill us yet.
posted by spooked at 2:09 PM
1 Comments:
major suck. and this is the pacific ocean. on the west coast we bury our trash in the ground. imagine what the atlantic ocean is like, where the east coast bastards actually drag their garbage out to sea on barges and just dump it there - in the water.
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