NP - The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

[Ian Livingston]

This information made me acutely attentive to the packaging I am
willing to purchase.  Trader Joe's, for instance, uses primarily
non-recyclable plastics, so I won't shop there.  Still miss the old
paper produce bags and paper butcher-wrap.  If we won't save
ourselves, to whom, then, can we turn?  Will there be an end of
petroleum while humans live?

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:50 PM, John Bailey<sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> I read a great article on this a while back. There's a vortex of
> plastic in the Pacific twice the size of Texas. It will never go away.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch
>
> Apparently - and I didn't know this and don't know much about chem -
> pretty much every bit of plastic ever manufactured still exists in
> polymer form, unless it's been incinerated.
>
> As the wiki states, "Unlike debris which biodegrades, photodegraded
> plastic disintegrates into ever smaller pieces while remaining a
> polymer. This process continues down to the molecular level."
>