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Article: ENVIRONMENT: ; Scientists set sail for 'Garbage Patch'
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- August 7, 2009
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Hoping to learn more about one of the most
glaring examples of waste and environmental pollution on Earth, a
group of scientists set sail from San Francisco this week to the
"Great Pacific Garbage Patch," a massive vortex of floating plastic
trash estimated by some researchers to be twice the size of Texas.
The bobbing debris field, where currents swirl everything from
discarded fishing line to plastic bottles into one soupy mess, is
located about 1,000 miles west of California.
"This is a problem that is kind of out of sight, out of mind, but
it is having devastating impacts on the ocean. I felt we needed to
do something about it," said Mary Crowley, co-founder of ...
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Transcript: Navigating the Pacific's 'Garbage Patch'
NPR Weekend All Things Considered;
October 28, 2007 ;
700+ words
... ... 2007 Navigating the Pacific's 'Garbage Patch' Host: ANDREA SEABROOK Time 19 ... What he found there was plastic, a garbage patch, an area full of plastic bags and ... recently traveled again through the garbage patch, and he joins us now from the bow ...
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