Plastic pollution

image from: http://europasicewolf.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/ocean-pollution-human-trash.jpg

In this article we can see what happens to the plastic in the Pacific Ocean.

"A "plastic soup" of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said."

By Kathy Marks, Asia-Pacific Correspondent, and Daniel Howden in http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/the-worlds-rubbish-dump-a-garbage-tip-that-stretches-from-hawaii-to-japan-778016.html

Animation with the trash vortex along the Pacific Ocean:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/pollution/trash-vortex?MM_URL=http://oceans..greenpeace.org/en/our-oceans/pollution/trash-vortex


How plastics affects the fauna:
http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Moore-Trashed-PacificNov03.htm