Nov
11
2009
Drowning in plastic: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of France
By paulgreen
Drowning in plastic: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of France
There are now 46,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometre of the world’s oceans, killing a million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals each year. Worse still, there seems to be nothing we can do to clean it up. So how do we turn the tide?
Richard Grant reports on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and a new expedition that aims to make us reassess our relationship with plastic. Illustrations by Brett Ryder
via Drowning in plastic: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of France – Telegraph.
