Friday, April 16, 2010

Plastic Vortex? This may be the wierdest thing I've heard in a while...

Thu Apr 15, 6:53 AM
By Mike Melia, The Associated Press

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Researchers are warning of a new blight on the ocean: a swirl of confetti-like plastic debris stretching over thousands of square miles (kilometres) in a remote expanse of the Atlantic Ocean.

The floating garbage - hard to spot from the surface and spun together by a vortex of currents - was documented by two groups of scientists who trawled the sea between scenic Bermuda and Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores islands.

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