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Old 02-06-2008, 03:45 PM   #1 (permalink)
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The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan

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A "plastic soup" of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said.

The vast expanse of debris – in effect the world's largest rubbish dump – is held in place by swirling underwater currents. This drifting "soup" stretches from about 500 nautical miles off the Californian coast, across the northern Pacific, past Hawaii and almost as far as Japan.

Hawaii to Japan
Well isnt that cool.......
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A gigantic source of alternative energy being wasted.
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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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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......
As I read more and more and watch more and more shows on 'greening up' it is a distinct fuel source. Building source. Possibly even water filtering source.
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