Yes, there are plastic bottles in the ocean. But look at the water in the background!Or this, which they use as their lead:
Is that a giant Pacific garbage patch, or just a lost fishing net with some other stuff caught up in it?Pollution of the oceans is a major problem, but creating this image of a giant garbage vortex that looks to the rest of us like, well, an ocean, is going to backfire and make environmentalists look like liars.
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I got an impression from recent news stories that plastic bottles etc. do not in fact survive indefinitely in ocean water, but break up rapidly into tiny fragments--which is in fact much worse for the environment.
Right, I blogged about that. I am simply annoyed/amused by this "great trash vortex" stuff, which I think only makes environmentalists and the National Geographic Society look silly.
The idea IS kind of cool though. It's like the Sargasso Sea--this giant floating world in the middle of the ocean.
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