Friday, March 14, 2008

Toxic Soup of Plastic Debris, Twice the Size of US, Forms in the Pacific Ocean

"(NaturalNews) It is twice the size of the continental United States, yet you cannot set foot on it. Scientists have named it “Plastic Soup”, and appropriately so. Floating in the Northern Pacific Ocean lays a huge expanse of plastic refuse. This garbage patch is actually two attached areas on either side of Hawaii, known as the Western and Eastern Pacific Garbage Patches.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch was discovered by"read the rest of "Toxic Soup of Plastic Debris, Twice the Size of US, Forms in the Pacific Ocean" at Naturalnews.com