Comments on: 10 Things You Might Not Know… http://zebrasounds.net/2009/01/05/ten-things-you-might-not-know/ Sat, 19 May 2012 03:22:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: cmw http://zebrasounds.net/2009/01/05/ten-things-you-might-not-know/#comment-200 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:45:58 +0000 http://jseew.wordpress.com/?p=870#comment-200 More on item #1…
In the book “The World Without Us” by Alan Weisman, the U.S. Navy corroborated an early 90′s estimate of over 3 million tons of plastic swirling around in the Pacific Gyre. That was over 10 years ago. All this plastic has appeared in barely more than 50 years. (An oceanic gyre is a large, slowly swirling vortex caused by wind and ocean currents.)

“By 2005, the size of the gyrating Pacific dump was estimated to be as much 10 million square miles–nearly the size of Africa. And it’s not the only one: the planet has six other major tropical oceanic gyres all of them swirling with ugly debris.” (excerpt from chapter 9 of Weisman’s book).
cmw

]]> By: jb http://zebrasounds.net/2009/01/05/ten-things-you-might-not-know/#comment-199 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:37:39 +0000 http://jseew.wordpress.com/?p=870#comment-199 i only knew 3 of the things on the list. now i’m 7 things smarter. thanks! :-)

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