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Old 02-11-2007, 01:07 PM
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I remember reading a very depressing article about this. Plastic rubbish accumulates in the vast stable rotating system of the Central Pacific Gyre, where it stays pretty much forever. Or at least until it's eaten by some poor creature.

http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Oce...tch27oct02.htm

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