Pacific plastic soup grew 100-fold

France 24 /International News ^ | May 9, 2012 | France 24

[Brandonmark]

the story is from France....is that a legitimate news source???

About as much as MSNBC

[Williams]

Excellent link, thank you.

[Brandonmark]

Thanks for that link... particularly liked ths:

The studies have shown is that if you look at the actual area of the plastic itself, rather than the entire North Pacific subtropical gyre, the hypothetically “cohesive” plastic patch is actually less than 1 percent of the geographic size of Texas.

[Nifster]

got it...... ;)

[publius911]

And scientists warned the killer soup of microplastic -- particles smaller than five millimetres (one inch)

I have a tough time takining any technical article seriously which can't do a simple conversion properly.
Five millimeters is a fifth of an inch.

[Talisker]

Today, scientists estimate the swirling mass of waste known as the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (NPSG) or the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is roughly the size of Texas.

So there's photos of this gigantic thing, right?

Right?

:: crickets ::

[HiTech RedNeck]

You’d think there would be a way to harvest all this readily usable hydrocarbon mass.

[GraceG]

[ This is why whenever I see a sea turtle, I tie a plastic bag to one of its arms, so they can go help pick this up. ]

OMG, I spit up my coffee....

[GraceG]

[ You’d think there would be a way to harvest all this readily usable hydrocarbon mass. ]

Dump a bunch of powdered rust over it and cause an algae bloom boom over it and the algae will eat it and sink it...