Published by Rosalind on 03 Mar 2010
Plastic is not so fantastic (in the ocean, anyway)
Plastic Rubbish Blights Atlantic Ocean
After more than 6100 tows of special nets over twenty years, scientists and students from the Sea Education Association have shown that the Atlantic Ocean has its own garbage patch area. Like the Great Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean, the ocean currents collect small bits of plastic and trash, endangering sealife and birds. The maximum “plastic density” found by the researchers was 200,000 pieces of debris per square kilometer.