Plastic trash collection found in Atlantic

Studies have shown that there is a high concentration of plastic debris floating in the Atlantic Ocean North of the Caribbean.
The investigators said last Tuesday that the findings were based on more than 64,000 tiny bits of plastic collected over more than 22 years by Sea Education Association undergraduates. They believed that surface currents carry the debris to the area between 22 and 38 degrees north latitude.
Similar currents also deliver trash to a spot between Hawaii and California known as the Great Pacific garbage Patch.


Great Pacific Garbage Patch

by: JEROLD ANTHONY F. DALMACIO from the article in Philippine Daily Inquirer published on February 25, 2010