Sunday 26 April 2009

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of France -

A shark carcase on Kamilo Beach, Hawaii; Drowning in plastic

There are now 46,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometre of the world's oceans, killing a million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals each year. Worse still, there seems to be nothing we can do to clean it up. So how do we turn the tide?

Drowning in plastic: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of France - Telegraph