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The Land of Flotsam and Jetsam

Published Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Many people dream of vacationing in the South Pacific, but there is one island no one wants to visit. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a floating continent of man made detritus located approximately halfway between Hawaii and San Francisco. Due to a confluence of winds and ocean currents, much of the world’s garbage eventually ends up in this isolated spot, where it goes largely unnoticed by humans but seriously endangers birds and sea life. Comprised of 80 percent plastic and weighing an estimated 3.5 million tons, this staggering monument to human irresponsibility has been growing tenfold every ...

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