Devising Cleanup Plans for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Published: 5 August 2008
Category: Packaging CONCERNS, Sustainability
The “Mercury News” (San Jose, Calif.) reports the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, located between the US and Japan, consists of two concentrations of mostly plastic garbage, which does not biodegrade, caught in swirling ocean gyres. The Inter-Agency Task Force on Marine Debris in Honolulu and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration are looking to stop plastic accumulations before they come ashore and are seeking proposals to devise a cleanup plan.