Factoid/2006/10/12
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Eastern Pacific 'Garbage Patch' Gyre near the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument
- "It's a toilet that never flushes, but just keeps accumulating (plastics and other debris). If you're an organism in this area you have six times as much chance of bumping into something plastic as you do something natural." - quote from Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation. Quote appeared in this article.
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