Lesbian seaguls and giant whirls of oceanic plastic.... oww my brain hurts

But thanks for posting this CA it was an interesting read

"Capt.American" wrote:

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And they were not the only pieces of plastic flotsam around. The
Pacific gyre, a huge circular current "is like a toilet that never
flushes," says Moore, who has run a number of scientific expeditions
to two particularly polluted giant eddies he calls the "garbage
patches."

In those areas, he astonished the scientific community by finding six
pounds of plastic for every pound of plankton. Broken down into
smaller and smaller particles, "it is insinuating itself into the
bottom of the food chain," he worries.....