A new Greenpeace report just came out on the dangers and sources of plastic in the great Pacific Garbage Patch:
The plastic garbage pit of the Pacific
November 6, 2006
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/06/OCEANS.TMP
Jane Kay, Chronicle Environment Writer, San Francisco Gate, San Francisco,CA
Trash particles, looking like food, imperil sea life
Plastic trash caught up in a swirling vortex in the North Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii is killing sea life, choking birds and fishand entangling seals and sea lions, a new Greenpeace report says....
See the whole Greenpeace report here:
http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/documents-reports/plastic_ocean_report
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