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Article:	The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan - K. Marks, D. Howden	View Article
Published:	2/5/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 253 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Habitats & Oceans

Article Details: 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. The vast expanse of debris – in effect the world's largest rubbish dump – is held in place by swirling underwater currents. This drifting "soup" stretches from about 500 nautical miles off the Californian coast, across the northern Pacific, past Hawaii and almost as far as Japan.