{"id":87,"date":"2009-04-07T03:31:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T03:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zurkow.wordpress.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2009-04-10T23:55:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T03:55:31","slug":"souvenirs-from-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2009\/04\/07\/souvenirs-from-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch\/","title":{"rendered":"Souvenirs from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo from VICE TV's piece, Garbage Island.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I was digging around\u00a0 for Paradoxical Sleep<\/a>, I wanted to find out what happened after San Jose’s Guadalupe River, after the South Bay of Northern California.\u00a0 The whirling gyre of nasty pollution information literally culminated in this<\/em> vortex: The North Pacific Garbage Patch, an area the size of Texas that’s a confluence of ocean currents, north of Hawaii. Maybe it’s twice the size of Texas: it’s an undulating swirling mass;\u00a0 it’s a soup of industrial and consumer plastics; some are plastic pellets from manufacturing, small enough to be mistaken for plankton and eaten by marine animals;\u00a0 lots are large enough to comprise a bounty in a net haul.<\/p>\n

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VBS TV “<\/strong>TOXIC\u00a0 – GARBAGE ISLAND – Part\u00a01\u00a0of\u00a012<\/a>“<\/p>\n

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When I was digging around\u00a0 for Paradoxical Sleep, I wanted to find out what happened after San Jose’s Guadalupe River, after the South Bay of Northern California.\u00a0 The whirling gyre of nasty pollution information literally culminated in this vortex: The North Pacific Garbage Patch, an area the size of Texas that’s a confluence of ocean … <\/p>\n

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