Zack Hill by John Deering and John Newcombe for August 27, 2011

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    grapfhics  about 13 years ago

    Planet Earth, our dumping grounds.

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    willamp  about 13 years ago
    Adults.
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    VincentG  about 13 years ago

    Actually, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is about the size of Texas.

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    keltii  about 13 years ago

    RCMinor, no it isn’t, go look it up, please.

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    jonathandough  about 13 years ago

    Oddly enough the switch to plastic bags came from enviromentalists who wanted to stop using the renewable, recyclable, and biodegradable paper bags. Also of note is that plastic shopping bags are 100% recyclable, if people would do it, and todays bags are engineered to be more biodegradable. There are so many things made of plastic that are thrown away that these bags are just a small part of. Plastic gas jugs, plastic water bottles, plastic soda bottles, everything at the dollar store. The problem is more indicitive of our “throw away” mentality, go to any dump you will find mountains of things that people “just had to have”, even children are throw away ( approx.1.2 million abortions last year).

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    baileydean  about 13 years ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch

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    jonathandough  about 13 years ago

    RCMinorhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch

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    MelvinLott  about 13 years ago

    The rest of us

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    Comic Minister Premium Member about 13 years ago

    Something must be done Carl.

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    RonBerg13 Premium Member about 13 years ago

    John… Please do not go down the political comments path.

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    lunchtimelooker  about 13 years ago

    Floating island of plastic is not a political statement it is a reality that none of us (the world) seem do know how to handle.

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    pschearer Premium Member about 13 years ago

    A floating island of plastic sounds like a resource waiting to be harvested.

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