Friday, April 16, 2010

And then there were two...

A 2nd garbage patch has been discovered in the North Atlantic.

Most people know about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (seriously, who comes up with these names?), discovered in 1997, but now the Atlantic can share in the infamy. If this doesn't get people to reassess the amount of plastics they use -- or at the very least, what happens when they're done with it -- I don't know what will.

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