Hawaii’s Plastic Beaches

Reblogged from Green Home Blog:

Hawaii’s Plastic Beach

Earth’s oceans are vast – they cover 71% of our planet’s surface – and the majority of that area is never visited or even seen by people, which can make it easy to ignore the growing problem of pollution in our waters. It’s an especially difficult issue to tackle because, even in the parts of the ocean that we can see, most of the trash actually sinks or floats below the surface, making it hard to determine just what’s going on out there.

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