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Floating rubbish dump 'bigger than US' | Breaking News | News.com.au
Topic: Miscellaneous 7:43 am EST, Jan 30, 2009

IT has been described as the world's largest rubbish dump, or the Pacific plastic soup, and it is starting to alarm scientists.

It is a vast area of plastic debris and other flotsam drifting in the northern Pacific Ocean, held there by swirling ocean currents.

The "patch" is in fact two massive, linked areas of circulating rubbish, says Dr Marcus Eriksen, research director of the US-based Algalita Marine Research Foundation, founded by Moore.

"It is endless for an area that is maybe twice the size as continental United States," he says.

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Floating rubbish dump 'bigger than US' | Breaking News | News.com.au



 
 
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