Souvenirs from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

1.0RENATUREDhttps://o-matic.com/blogMarinahttps://o-matic.com/blog/blog/author/admin/Souvenirs from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch[caption id="attachment_88" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Photo from VICE TV's piece, Garbage Island."]<a href="http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=1485308505" target="_blank"><img class="size-medium wp-image-88" style="border:0 none;" title="garbage-patch-pacific-vbs00" src="http://zurkow.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/garbage-patch-pacific-vbs00.jpg?w=300" alt="garbage-patch-pacific-vbs00" width="300" height="223" /></a>[/caption] When I was digging around for <a href="http://o-matic.com/play/paradox/index.html" target="_blank">Paradoxical Sleep</a>, I wanted to find out what happened after San Jose's Guadalupe River, after the South Bay of Northern California. 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 currents, north of Hawaii. Maybe it's twice the size of Texas: it's an undulating swirling mass; 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; lots are large enough to comprise a bounty in a net haul. <object width="392" height="270" data="http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/452319916" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="name" value="flashObj" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashvars" value="videoId=1485308505&playerId=452319916&viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://services.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&domain=embed&autoStart=false&" /><param name="src" value="http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/452319916" /></object> VBS TV "<a target="_top">TOXIC - GARBAGE ISLAND - Part 1 of 12</a>" <a href="http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=1485308505" target="_blank">Link to page for rest of series.</a>rich