mandag den 22. juni 2009

Why You Can’t See The Great Pacific Garbage Patch On Google Earth


Hørte om denne gigantiske affaldsspiral på P1 ... Plastik affald som i udstrækning fylder det samme som Texas - USAs største stat ... Forhåbentlig er der nogen som en dag ser en fordel i at 'høste' og genanvende det ... Dyrelivet lider ...
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I heard of the gigantic plastic waste spiral on the radio ... So much plastic that would cover all of Texas - the largest state in th US ... Hopefully somebody one day will see the advantage of 'harvesting' and reusing this giant waste ... Animal life is suffering ...
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by Danny Sullivan

After hearing about the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” earlier this year — an area the size of Texas in the Pacific Ocean filled with trash — I went looking for it on Google Earth. And never found it. It’s not that the patch doesn’t exist. It’s just that despite being large, it’s not that visible from above.

I was disappointed in Google at first, for not having images of the patch. After all, the company made a big splash with Google Ocean earlier this year, a way to see more about the majority of our planet that’s covered with water. But while Google Earth is good for seeing under the ocean, why can’t I see more of what’s on top, such as this huge collection of garbage? [...]










Read more: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/pollution/trash-vortex

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