{"id":745,"date":"2008-04-03T22:34:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T03:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/index.php\/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-out-of-sight-out-of-mind-treehugger\/"},"modified":"2008-04-03T22:34:48","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T03:34:48","slug":"the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-out-of-sight-out-of-mind-treehugger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-out-of-sight-out-of-mind-treehugger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Pacific Garbage Patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2008\/02\/great_pacific_garbage_patch.php\"><img src='http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/great%20pacific%20garbage%20patch-jj-001.jpg' alt='The Great Pacific Garbage Patch' title='The Great Pacific Garbage Patch' style=\"float: right; border: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px 4px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since at least the early 1990s, trillions of discarded plastic items have converged, held together by swirling currents, to form the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch that now covers an area twice the size of the United States and weighs about 100 million tons. &#8220;Every little piece of plastic manufactured in the past 50 years that made it into the ocean is still out there,&#8221; said one researcher quoted in a February dispatch in London&#8217;s The Independent. 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