Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Date:   8/28/2009 10:54:37 PM ( 15 y ago)

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Floating dump seen as deadly to the sea
Researchers study toxic Garbage Patch
By Mike Lee
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
2:00 a.m. August 28, 2009

A collection of garbage found on the expedition was displayed. Much of the area's debris is small, but it is still deadly to the ecosystem. (Howard Lipin / Union-Tribune) -

Scientists Find 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch'
Researchers say a Texas-sized garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean is possibly killing marine life and birds that are ingesting the trash. (Aug. 27)
by AP

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Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition Website
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Miriam Goldstein of UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography was the lead scientists on the trip to the Pacific Garbage Patch. (Howard Lipin / Union-Tribune)


Matt Durham, center, pulling in a large patch of sea garbage with the help of Miriam Goldstein, right, Aug. 11, 2009 in the Pacific Ocean. (AP Photo/ Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Mario Aguilera)

LA JOLLA — Fresh from a 20-day voyage to a Texas-size vortex of plastic trash called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a team of La Jolla researchers yesterday showed samples of what it found floating about 1,000 miles off San Diego's coast.

Scientists from UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography used nets to collect debris for a study to highlight how the trash is damaging an ecosystem that few people ever see and few marine biologists have assessed. The refuse — discarded carelessly on land and at sea — eventually converges in an area known as the North Pacific Gyre, where trade winds can trap it for years.

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