Giant Garbage Whirlpool off the coast of Japan
by Roy on February 7, 2008 16:42

Great Pacific Garbage Patch
That’s not plankton or seaweed forming that whirlpool off the eastern coast of northern Japan. That’s a huge “soup” of floating garbage. If that junk is in the ocean and the fish are eating that junk and we eat the fish, then we are eating that junk too!! It’s sickening, isn’t it? This post on Japan Probe got me to google it out and I found the above image here.



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Comment by UU on 2008-02-07 17:10:25

Where did Buffalo Readings get the picture of Japan from? I counldn’t trace to its original page.
The picutre contradicts the argument presented in the following article in that;
the whirlpool looks too near to Japan, and
the debris is visible from satelites.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/the-worlds-rubbish-dump-that-stretches-from-hawaii-to-japan-778016.html

“Mr Moore said that because the sea of rubbish is translucent and lies just below the water’s surface, it is not detectable in satellite photographs. “You only see it from the bows of ships,” he said.”

 
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Comment by English Junkie on 2008-04-04 02:58:15

Eww… That’s litterally a giant toilet!

 
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