Plastic Oceans: Best Life Online.com. The world's rubbish dump: a tip that stretches from Hawaii to Ja. 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. Charles Moore, an American oceanographer who discovered the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" or "trash vortex", believes that about 100 million tons of flotsam are circulating in the region. NachDenkSeiten - Die kritische Website.