Oceans have become toxic ‘plastic soup’
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch aka the “North Pacific Gyre” gets scarier every time I read a report. I have observed for decades from ships the dead-zone growing just 20 hours off the coast of Honsho, Japan’s main island.

Plastic Breaks Down in Ocean, After All — And Fast
National Geographic News, August 20, 2009–
… new study is the first to show that degrading plastics are leaching potentially toxic chemicals such as bisphenol A into the seas, possibly threatening ocean animals, and us. The researchers behind a new study, however, found that plastic breaks down at cooler temperatures than expected, and within a year of the trash hitting the water.
The Japan-based team collected samples in waters from the U.S., Europe, India, Japan, and elsewhere, lead researcher Katsuhiko Saido, a chemist with the College of Pharmacy at Nihon University in Japan…
…[big snip]…
….plastic debris–most of it smaller than a fifth of an inch (five millimeters)–is “dispersed over millions of square miles of ocean and miles’ deep in the water column…more…
Here’s a short report on the Garbage Patch…
Also watch the more detailed Ted Talk of Charles Moore describing this toxic issue.


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August 21st, 2009 at 2:47 pm
LoL! That’s phunny but true. Thanx for the post.
August 21st, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Gee, you Spambots sure have a dark sense of humor.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
forget the oceans….elderly J-folks bring the garbage home to make their own plastic instant soup…
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090825a6.html
just like every other OCD hoarder out there in the world….but J-doktor Shigeru Masuko, in the article linked above, appears to have his own recognition disorder….that hoarders are hoarders…but what can you expect from a hack who doesn’t even know what OCD is?