Sea of Trash - A Horrible Reality
Editor's note: The NY Times published a great article about the amazingly absurd amounts of trash and plastics that are washing up on shores the world over. We have all heard about the major plastic vortex in the middle of the Pacific Ocean,but this article shes additional light on where a lot of the trash washes up on shore. It's a disheartneing look at a real ugly situation we've gotten ourselves into...
"The tide of plastic isn’t rising only on Alaskan shores. In 2004 two oceanographers from the British Antarctic Survey completed a study of plastic dispersal in the Atlantic that spanned both hemispheres. “Remote oceanic islands,” the study showed, “may have similar levels of debris to those adjacent to heavily industrialized coasts.” Even on the shores of Spitsbergen Island in the Arctic, the survey found on average a plastic item every five meters."
