Thread: The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan
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Old 02-06-2008, 04:50 PM   #3 (permalink)
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A gigantic source of alternative energy being wasted.
All that butane in those lighters......
It should be easy to harvest and apply some of those new techniques that change plastics to energy sources......
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