Just like the Great Pacific Garbage patch written about earlier on this blog ('The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Must Be Addressed' Jan 31, 2010), the Atlantic Ocean has a newly discovered Plastic filled Gyre of its very own.
"National Geographic News" has published an article about the patch which sits hundreds of miles off the North American Coast. In some places, more than 200,000 bits of trash per square kilometer were found by students in the Sea Education Association Semester Education Program at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
The patch is described as covering a region between 22 and 38 degrees north latitude—roughly the distance from Cuba to Virginia.
See more information about this issue at the "National Geographic's" Daily News website at http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100302-new-ocean-trash-garbag...
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