Great pacific garbage patch

• Debris that washed out to sea when a tsunami hit Japan's northeast coast last year could soon end up in remote stretches of the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii, according to U.S. officials.
(Washington Post)
• The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is expanding. For those who do not know what this is, it is basically comprised of two floating landfills one between Hawaii and California, and the other between Hawaii and Japan.
(The Inquisitr)
• The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is nothing new -- the two ginormous patches of garbage floating in the ocean between California and Japan that are EACH roughly the size of Texas. But its making news today because its about to get a whole lot bigger.
(The Stir)
• LOS ANGELES — Debris that has been drifting across the Pacific Ocean since last year's magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami in Japan could reach Hawaii and the West Coast, experts said Tuesday.
(The Vancouver Sun)
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(YAHOO!)
• Lie #2: The so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch does not exist.
(AlterNet)
• It will collect all the debris on its way. Maximenko concludes that a majority of the debris will end up in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a floating garbage patch somewhere between Hawaii and California.
(International Business Times)
• Much of that trash in a wide area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is bits of plastic, which slowly breaks down into smaller pieces but doesnt completely disappear.
(WJTV.com)
• Ironically, the book was published in 1971, far before Hummers, the scare of An Inconvenient Truth and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. So Suess was something of a visionary—thats why Hollywood deemed his book worthy of a 2012 remake.
(Cincinnati CityBeat)