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	Plastic trash wrecks our oceans

bs1999bs

11-10-2008 6:13 AM

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oceans, waste, environment, ecology, animals

bs1999bs says:

We are trashing our planet at an ever-increasing rate - we have to address this scourge!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9c437084-a376-411a-95a3-f34fb1957ee0/CCEFFD84-EE55-4753-A7B6-6543F3B3DD0E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Moore-Trashed-PacificNov03.htm" href="http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Moore-Trashed-PacificNov03.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.mindfully.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Moore-Trashed-PacificNov03.htm">Across the
Pacific Ocean, Plastics, Plastics, Everywhere </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Moore-Trashed-PacificNov03.htm">It seemed unbelievable, but I never found a clear spot. In
the week it took to cross the subtropical high, no matter what time of day I
looked, plastic debris was floating everywhere: bottles, bottle caps, wrappers,
fragments. Months later, after I discussed what I had seen with the
oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer, perhaps the world's leading expert on flotsam,
he began referring to the area as the "eastern garbage patch." But
"patch" doesn't begin to convey the reality. Ebbesmeyer has estimated
that the area, nearly covered with floating plastic debris, is roughly the size
of Texas.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Moore-Trashed-PacificNov03.htm">Yet as I gazed from the deck at the surface
of what ought to have been a pristine ocean, I was confronted, as far as the eye
could see, with the sight of plastic.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CCEFFD84-EE55-4753-A7B6-6543F3B3DD0E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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