http://www.alternet.org/water/76056/
Marcus Eriksen, a research director of the US-based Algalita Marine
Research Foundation, which Mr Moore founded, said yesterday: "The
original idea that people had was that it was an island of plastic
garbage that you could almost walk on. It is not quite like that. It is
almost like a plastic soup. It is endless for an area that is maybe
twice the size as continental United States."
...
Marcus Eriksen, a research director of the US-based Algalita Marine
Research Foundation, which Mr Moore founded, said yesterday: "The
original idea that people had was that it was an island of plastic
garbage that you could almost walk on. It is not quite like that. It is
almost like a plastic soup. It is endless for an area that is maybe
twice the size as continental United States."
...
According to the UN Environment Programme, plastic debris causes the
deaths of more than a million seabirds every year, as well as more than
100,000 marine mammals. Syringes, cigarette lighters and toothbrushes
have been found inside the stomachs of dead seabirds, which mistake
them for food.
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