garbage patch Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:39:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Giant Plastic Patches to Float on the Oceans For Hundreds of Years https://www.greenoptimistic.com/giant-plastic-patches-to-float-on-the-oceans-for-hundreds-of-years-20130110/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/giant-plastic-patches-to-float-on-the-oceans-for-hundreds-of-years-20130110/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:39:21 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=31121 Regardless of where in the world plastic garbage is thrown in the ocean, new research shows that it can get carried to any of the ocean basins. Scientists from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, based at UNSW, have established that even if we stop throwing plastics now, the places […]

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